Some Quotes

Subject: Democracy...

“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.” - Edward Dowling.

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” - Louis Brandeis.

“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.” - Aristotle.

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,” - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“Information is the currency of democracy.” - Thomas Jefferson.

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” - John F. Kennedy.

“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy” - Theodore Roosevelt.

“Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.” - George Bernard Shaw.

“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!” - Allen Ginsberg.

I could go on, but that seems to fulfill my intended message in a nutshell.