I am an enthusiast for democracy. And I take that position, not because I believe majority opinion is inevitably right or true – indeed no majority can take away God-given human rights – but because I believe it most effectively safeguards the value of the individual, and, more than any other system, restrains the abuse […]
Democracy Quotes
The case for democracy is not esthetic.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference. While democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State ‘What does it matter to me?’ the State may be given up for lost.
I think, then, that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed in the world; our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I seek in vain for an expression that will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of […]
In the U.S. we have a method of formulating defense policy which is influenced by pork barrel legislation, technological results of federally subsidized research and development, a desire to keep large corporations afloat, and intersevice competition. We as citizens are not often involved in the formulation of policy beyond letting our representative know that jobs […]
