Rule of by people
has little support in facts
for the theory
For the Mencken Project
Taken from The Minority Report, #343, by HL Mencken, 1956
The line is, “The Theory behind representative government is that superior men – or, at all events, men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity – are chosen to manage the public business, and they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honesty. There is little for this theory in the know facts.”