... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.