“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN”

“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”

“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”

“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”

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

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity—he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.”