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Democracy Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships…
- I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts…
- Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
- Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
- I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
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- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
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