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• One of the merits of democracy is quite obvious: it is perhaps the most charming form of government ever devised by man.
  The reason is not far to seek. It is based on propositions that are palpably not true -- and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true....
• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
  It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury....
• Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
• Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon.
• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
  -- Senator Soape...