| |  | | | | | | | | | | | The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | | | The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t | | Eleanor Roosevelt | | | The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind | | Mahatma Gandhi | | | The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois | | Gustave Flaubert | | | | | There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave | | Nelson Mandela | | | Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it | | Walter Winchell | | | Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. | | Ronald Reagan | | | You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. | | Harry S Truman | | | You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | | | | | | | |
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