Who said “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost…”?

“The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”

“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”

“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”

“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”

“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”

“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”

“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.”

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests”