“No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked.” PeopleGovernmentPlansSacrificeEconomicVoteAgreeUnionsDemocraticTraditionalDependentAdequateAbandonmentDefenceEuropean Union Author:Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
“At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.” WorldYearsTwoStatesMightCareLastsLeaderWonderSacrificeResourcesMadDemocraticPatientMedicalAliensImmigrantsPushingIllegalLos AngelesReceivingApprovalLast YearTaxpayersLiverKidneysIllegal ImmigrantsUclaIllegal AliensTransplantsLimited ResourcesDemocratic Leaders Author:Michelle Malkin
“My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.” HeartGovernmentStruggleRiskSacrificeAchieveCitizensMy HeartBraveDemocraticIsraelWelcomeEach DayRegionsRegimesSyriaHistoric Author:Shimon Peres
“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.” HumansAgeIndividualSocialLibertyRightsSacrificeDangerousDesignParticularReadyCitizensDemocraticExecutionOppressedObscureTrue FriendGrandeurUnimportantVigilantImpunityIndividual RightsSocial Power Author:Alexis de Tocqueville