From: Prejudices, "Matters of State," H L Mencken (1919)

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both.