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

H.L. Mencken

1916

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Mencken, Henry Louis. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30. Originally published in A Little Book in C Major, published by John Lane Co., 1916, ch. 2.

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