Max Lerner Quotes About Democracy
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
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Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
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