Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
The chief executive who knows his strengths , weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
It’s all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
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