G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

[T]he political instinct or desire is one of these things which [men] hold in common. Falling in love is more poetical than dropping into poetry. The democratic contention is that government (helping to rule the tribe) is a thing like falling in love, and not a thing like dropping into poetry. It is not something analogous to playing the church organ, painting on vellum, discovering the North Pole (that insidious habit), looping the loop, being Astronomer Royal, and so on. For these things we do not wish a man to do at all unless he does them well. It is, on the contrary, a thing analogous to writing one's own love-letters or blowing one's nose. These things we want a man to do for himself, even if he does them badly.
[Chapter IV, "The Ethics of Elfland"]