Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.