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- The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Attlee
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
- Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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