Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The voter does not even vote for what he wants; he only votes for what he thinks he wants. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 476

There exist two interpretations of the popular vote, one democratic, the other liberal. According to the democratic interpretation what the ...

After having been, in the last century, the instrument of political radicalism, universal suffrage is becoming, as Tocqueville foresaw, a co...

When those elected in a popular election do not belong to the lowest intellectual, moral, social strata of the nation, we can be sure that c...

Among those elected by popular suffrage only the imbeciles are respectable, because the intelligent man had to lie in order to be elected. E...

The democratic ruler cannot adopt a solution as long as he does not receive the enthusiastic support of people who will never understand the...

We enemies of universal suffrage never cease to be surprised by the enthusiasm aroused by the election of a handful of incapable men by a he...

Popular suffrage is less absurd today than yesterday: not because the majorities are more cultured, but because the minorities are less so. ...

The number of votes by which a ruler is elected is not a measure of his legitimacy but his mediocrity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

Parliaments elected by means of universal suffrage first lose their moral prestige and then their political importance. Escolios a un Texto ...

Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed....

To find oneself at the mercy of the people’s whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom. Escolio...