text: When you put something in "quotes", it should be a "quote", not a summary of your memory.
  
  "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
  
  "Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
  
  "The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians—and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse."
  
  "I propose that it shall be no longer malum in se for a citizen to pummel, cowhide, kick, gouge, cut, wound, bruise, maim, burn, club, bastinado, flay, or even lynch a [government] jobholder, and that it shall be malum prohibitum only to the extent that the punishment exceeds the jobholder’s deserts."