"Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it." Oliver Cromwell letter to Walter Dundas, 12 Sept. 1650

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken