Roca attempts to justify himself with his usual skill, thus exposing the alleged need for the violation of the citizens will, "That is the awareness that made it necessary for governments to become electors, to strengthen the State, to give unity to the powers of State, effective power to the principle of authority. We'll see what becomes of free suffrage, when violence threaten again. The lyrical, the naive, those unfamiliar with the country, do not even know what it contains, of course they have not been able to think about all this."
Wilde expressed himself about this: "I warn you that if you gave me the option, I would opt for any means least the election by the people; that amorphous animal, brute and mean, that would choose the worst of itself." "What is universal suffrage? The triumph of universal ignorance. What is democracy? The government of the many, that is, the less fit."
Juarez Celman accompanied in his concepts to his interior minister and friend, because, according to Astengo Rivero, one of his strongest convictions was as follows: "To consult the people is always to err because they only have turbid opinions."
-- Hector B. Petrocelli,
Argentinean Constitutional History