Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted