It's by H.L. Mencken (1915): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken. https://books.google.ca/books?id=hXVHAAAA

It's by H.L. Mencken (1915): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken. https://books.google.ca/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy+is+the+theory+that+the+common+people+know+what+they+want+and+deserve+to+get+it+good+and+hard%22&pg=PA435&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage https://books.google.ca/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy...