Terry Pratchett. Night Watch (№ 170100)

People on the side of the People always get disappointed. They understood that People did not seek to be thankful or grateful, or visionary, or just obey them. People were outcomesbased and conservative, and not particularly intelligent, and even did not trust reason. And then the children of the revolution were faced with the eternal problem: it is not that you are not the government that seemed obvious, but the fact that people are not the same.