Democracy
DEMOCRACY:
If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
DEMOCRACY:
If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
DEMOCRACY:
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
DEMOCRACY:
Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand.
DEMOCRACY:
The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.
DEMOCRACY:
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
DEMOCRACY:
Free and fair elections are a necessary - but not sufficient - condition of democracy.
DEMOCRACY:
Democracy is a system of constructive contention.
DEMOCRACY:
. . . while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
DEMOCRACY:
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functionsperformed by private citizens.
DEMOCRACY:
We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of few. But we can't have both.
DEMOCRACY:
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.