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.
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.
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.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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