„Democracy always seems bent upon killing the thing it theoretically loves. I have rehearsed some of its operations against liberty, the very cornerstone of its political metaphysic.“

— H.L. Mencken

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„The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.“
— Woodrow Wilson
„Democracy, in fact, is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them.“
— H.L. Mencken
„Democracy is shot through with this delight in the incredible, this banal mysticism. I have alluded to its touching acceptance of the faith that progress is illimitable and ordained of God - that every human problem, in the very nature of things, may be solved.“
— H.L. Mencken