This quote is written / told by Larry Niven somewhere between April 30, 1938 and today. He/she was a famous Writer from USA.
The author also have 25 other quotes.
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"