![]() ![]() ![]() "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." "All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.” "The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind – men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. "Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice." "…the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.” "Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be successful appeal, back to bullets that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections." ![]() "The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.” Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society." "At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man…is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. If democracy is viewed as essentially a process – a way in which collective decisions for a society are made – free expression is crucial to the openness of the process and to such characteristics as elections, representation of interests, and the like.” "The freedom to express varying and often opposing ideas is essential to variety of conceptions of democracy. "The basis of a democratic state is liberty.” It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine." "Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. ![]() "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men." "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part." "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who, have a right …and a desire to know" "There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature." "The effect of to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the nation…” "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could do only a little." Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ![]()
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