“The voice of the people is frequently the voice of jackasses and criminals and the demented and the avid bellies. They will believe the most monstrous lies if spoken by their current favorite and servant in politics. They will defame the best, if so commanded. They will riot and commit wholesale murder at the behest of any rascal who alleges he loves and serves them out of the nobility of his heart. The mob neither loves nor hates Cicero for himself. But they hate him because Clodius has commanded them so to hate. And this is democracy!”*
