“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.”

Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden

On the song "Pedro Navaja" in "Rubén Blades" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/latinmusicusa/legends/ruben-blades/ in PBS

1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors

It was Joseph de Maistre who wrote in 1811 "Every nation gets the government it deserves."
Misattributed

Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 1, The System of Government, p. 5

Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)
Context: Theoretically "democracy" means popular government; government by all for everybody by the efforts of all. In a democracy the people must be able to say what they want, to nominate the executors of their wishes, to monitor their performance and remove them when they see fit.
Naturally this presumes that all the individuals that make up a people are able to form an opinion and express it on all the subjects that interest them. It implies that everyone is politically and economically independent and therefore no-one, to live, would be obliged to submit to the will of others. <!--
If classes and individuals exist that are deprived of the means of production and therefore dependent on others with a monopoly over those means, the so-called democratic system can only be a lie, and one which serves to deceive the mass of the people and keep them docile with an outward show of sovereignty, while the rule of the privileged and dominant class is in fact salvaged and consolidated. Such is democracy and such it always has been in a capitalist structure, whatever form it takes, from constitutional monarchy to so-called direct rule.

&quot;One woman’s struggles&quot; https://www.sundaystandard.info/ococaone-womanocos-strugglesoco/ (24 March 2014)