Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Democracy’s Double
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
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Before Democracy
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Democracy Shares
If liberty and equality…are chiefly to be found in democracy, they are best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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