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.