Democracy is the theory that intelligence is dangerous. It assumes that no idea can be safe until those who can’t understand it have approved it. It defines truth as anything which at least fifty-one men in every hundred believe. Thus it is firmly committed to the doctrines that one bath a week is enough, that “I seen” is the past tense of “I see,” and that Friday is an unlucky day.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]

“Pertinent and Impertinent,” Smart Set (Jun 1913) [as Owen Hatteras]
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