The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented. It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.