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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Democracy, Power, Service

• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy, Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Radicals, Liberals, Conservatives, Solidarity, Change/Growth

• Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Commitment, Democracy

  Tags in Solidarity, Civilization

• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Self Respect

  Tags in Solidarity

• Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Education, Trust

  Tags in Government, Whenever

• There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.

  Demosthenes

  Topics in Democracy, Politics, Trust

• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals, Politics, Trust

  Tags in Freedom

• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals, Politics, Trust

  Tags in Government, Values, Freedom

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Failure, History, Inspirational, Life, Love, Truth

  Tags in Despair

• In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent, Politics, Truth

  Tags in Rebellion

• At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy, Politics, Power, Truth

  Tags in Change/Growth, Reform, Values

• There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change — and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Understanding

• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Nonviolence, Good, Evil, Violence

• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Duty, Virtue

• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights, Government, Women

• Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in College, Democracy, Money

  Tags in Their, Because, Course, Your, Get, Hearts, Ever, Never, Freedom, Take, Broken, Know, Matter, Dare

• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in War

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Nonviolence, War, Loss

• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent, Politics

  Tags in Patriotism, War

• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Minorities, Wealth