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“In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'”

Men Mind Desire Father President Education Democracy Security Genius Acknowledge Republic Texas Dictator Guardian Free Man

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.”

Thinking Men World Firsts Whole Use Earth Desire Found Virtue Democracy Modern Expression Authority Resources Ideals Aim Pursuit Modern World Turning Points Nature Of Man

Author:Walter Lippmann

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...and that's where the struggle for democracy begins.”

Children Problem Desire Speak Struggle Democracy Democratic Problem Solving

Author:Patrick Watson

“What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?”

Desire Democracy Alive Higher Hatred Excellence

Book:The Last of the Wine

Source: The Last of the Wine

“Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.”

Mean Real Desire Leader Democracy Groups Ideology Factions

Author:Hillary Clinton

“There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.”

Thinking Needs Wells Enough Desire Democracy Citizens Difficulty Prejudice Institutions Presses Stupidity Dues Exploitation Urgent Freedom Of The Press Parliamentary Personal Desire

Author:Susan Stebbing

“Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.”

“Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.”

Needs Desire Suffering Democracy Iran Thank God

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.”

Kind Country Government Desire Challenges Common Democracy Middle Unique Fundamentals East Middle East Thread Common Threads

Author:John McCain

“The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.”

Body Law Desire Decision Democracy Citizens Supreme Collectives Decision Making Parliament

Author:Ziauddin Sardar

“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.”

People World Desire Democracy Pages Majority Injustice Minorities World History Inhumanity Majority And Minority

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.”

Reality Desire Democracy Islam Euro Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Author:Walter Kasper

“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.”

Ifs Trying Philosophy Hands Faces Desire Democracy Alive Democratic Critical Experiments Dialogue Wrestling Fragile Disposition Domination Dogmatism

Author:Cornel West

“Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.”