The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts...


Minority Report (ed. Knopf, 2013) - ISBN: 9780307830906

H. L. Mencken Quotes

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to...

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to...

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to...

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to...