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

Democracy, n.:
        A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression.  Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
                -- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
                   since withdrawn.

Demographic polls show that you have lost credibility across the
board.  Especially with  those 14 year-old Valley girls.

Dentist, n.:
        A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls
coins out of one's pockets.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Despising machines to a man,
The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
        And ride out by night
        In a sheeting of white
To lynch all the robots they can.
                -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will
be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over
the table.
                -- The Anarchist Cookbook

DeVries's Dilemma:
        If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want
hits the paper.

Did I say 2?  I lied.

Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Did you know that if you took all the economists in the world and lined
them up end to end, they'd still point in the wrong direction?