Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), no. 6, p. 15, used several times in reference to the citizens of Great Britain. Champ Clark, referring to this remark added, "While the percentage of fools in this country is not so large, there are still enough to fatten the swindlers…. The percentage of fools in this country is not so great as Carlyle states it, but nevertheless it is quite large."—Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics (1920), p. 213.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fools