{"id":131978,"date":"2016-11-08T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/08\/quotations-on-an-election-day-part-4.html"},"modified":"2016-11-08T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:11:05","slug":"quotations-on-an-election-day-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/08\/quotations-on-an-election-day-part-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Quotations on an Election Day, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

¶ To me, the democratic system represents man’s best and brightest hope of self-fulfillment, of a life rich in promise and free from fear; the one hope, perhaps, for the complete development of the whole man. But I know, and learn more clearly every day, that we cannot keep our system strong and free by neglect, by taking it for granted, by giving it our second-best attention. We must be prepared, like the suitor in The Merchant of Venice<\/i> — and, I might point out, the successful suitor — to give and hazard all we have.<\/p>\n

— Eleanor Roosevelt<\/b> (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
“What Has Happened to the American Dream?” Atlantic Monthly<\/i> (Apr 1961)
http:\/\/wist.info\/roosevelt-eleanor\/28085\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

¶ Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.<\/p>\n

— George Bernard Shaw<\/b> (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
(Attributed)
http:\/\/wist.info\/shaw-george-bernard\/3608\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.<\/p>\n

— John Paul Stevens<\/b> (b. 1920) American lawyer, US Supreme Court Justice (1975-2010)
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. (2010) [Dissenting]
http:\/\/wist.info\/stevens-john-paul\/22059\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy.<\/p>\n

— Adlai Stevenson<\/b> (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Nomination Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, Chicago (26 Jul 1952)
http:\/\/wist.info\/stevenson-adlai-ewing\/8415\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.<\/p>\n

— Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu<\/b> (1689-1755) French political philosopher
The Spirit of the Laws<\/i> (1748)<\/p>\n

¶ Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.<\/p>\n

— Reinhold Niebuhr<\/b> (1892-1971) American theologian and clergyman
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness,<\/i> foreward (1944)
http:\/\/wist.info\/niebuhr-reinhold\/2973\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.<\/p>\n

— Lawrence J. Peter<\/b> (1919-1990) American educator, management theorist
(Attributed)
http:\/\/wist.info\/peter-lawrence-j\/3124\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right? Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.<\/p>\n

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.<\/b> (1917-2007) American historian, author, social critic
“A Clinton Card, So Far,” New York Times<\/i> (11 Apr 1993)
http:\/\/wist.info\/schlessinger-arthur\/18625\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ DOTTY: It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.<\/p>\n

— Tom Stoppard<\/b> (b. 1937) Czech-English playwright and screenwriter
Jumpers,<\/i> Act I (1972)
http:\/\/wist.info\/stoppard-tom\/3746\/<\/a>
(see also Stalin, http:\/\/wist.info\/stalin-josef\/3700\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

¶ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.<\/p>\n

— E.B. White<\/b> (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
“Talk of the Town,” New Yorker (3 Jul 1943)
http:\/\/wist.info\/white-eb\/4147\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ Democracy means despair of ever finding any heroes to govern you, and contentedly putting up with the want of them.<\/p>\n

— Thomas Carlyle<\/b> (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Past and Present<\/i> (1843)
http:\/\/wist.info\/carlyle-thomas\/725\/<\/a><\/p>\n

¶ Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.<\/p>\n

— Winston Churchill<\/b> (1874-1965) British statesman and author
Speech, House of Commons (11 Nov 1947)
http:\/\/wist.info\/churchill-winston\/5216\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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