When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even comprehending any save the most elemental--men whose chief thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is the dread of what they cannot understand.(Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken