The quote is from Benito Mussolini. I don't agree with him on everything but thought it was pretty interesting. If you look at all democracies throughout history there is always corruption and people who are really pulling the strings that you can't see. At the end of the day the people don't really have a large say in the government and what it does, democracy just gives a false sense of hope and pride.

Here is the full quote from Mussolini:

"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. The truth is that men are tired of liberty. Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Fascism is a religious concept. Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."