Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God's chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the …