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Which of the founding fathers are you paraphrasing as having said, "the masses were on the whole dim witted and unfit to run the country, a beast to be controlled"? Also, could you provide the direct quotation?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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