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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 423
AUTHOR: Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956)
QUOTATION: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
ATTRIBUTION: H. L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major, p. 19 (1916).
SUBJECTS: Democracy