A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.