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kabdib
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"Democracy is government for the people, by the people, on the principle that the people should get the kind of government that they deserve, good and hard."
[wish i could attribute this, but i don't remember where i first heard it]
a3camero
on Sept 20, 2019
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It's by H.L. Mencken (1915):
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
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https://books.google.ca/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy...
kabdib
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Thanks! I had a feeling it was Mencken, it certainly sounds like him.
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[wish i could attribute this, but i don't remember where i first heard it]