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

Democracy Cease Progressive

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”

May Form Religious Accepting Democracy Critical Believer Cease Reasonable Restraint Discourse Modernity Maintenance Non Believer Liberal Democracy

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”

“Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.”

Ifs Should Facts Democracy Endure Prosperity Cease Distinction Linked Prevention Peacekeeping

Author:Susan Rice

“If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.”

Ifs Doe Fall Support Democracy Cease

Author:Michael Moore

“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.”

Wells War Country Literature Politics Democracy Modern Democratic Prepared Cease Tyrants Bureaucracy Obedient Government Bureaucracy Modern War

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization