Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image