Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Better never than late.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.