"We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth
 concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
 - Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice,
                   adviser to President Woodrow Wilson

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual
 ignorance.  No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the
 records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by
 underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
 Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
 - H.L. Mencken _Notes on Democracy_