Fellow travelers,

Too often people argue over whether something is 100% good or 100% bad and lose sight of the fact that everything in this world is imperfect.  In light of that imperfection, here is another “Quint of Quotes” from my collection, on the theme of democracy:

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” – E.B. White

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken

“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” – John Adams

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” – Edmund Burke

“Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?” – Ecclesiastes 7:13