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  • I have to agree with Ben. you simply must vote, as sitting one out does not add to the voice which is so important to democ (k) racy. if you don't vote, you can't complain.

    Obama Leads In The Total Popular Vote ��� Even With Florida And Michigan 2009

  • In the issue, leading restauranteurs and social justice activists were asked to reflect on how we can democ ...

    Alice Waters: Want to Teach Democracy? Improve School Lunches 2009

  • In the issue, leading restauranteurs and social justice activists were asked to reflect on how we can democ ...

    Alice Waters: Want to Teach Democracy? Improve School Lunches 2009

  • And yet, despite all its cynicism, Poland was a democ - racy; it did know freedom, andits gentry were both more numerous than in any other nation of the time and more involved in the rights of government.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Page 40, Volume 3 by nature democratic; it needs the illusion of democ - racy even where it cannot have the reality.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

  • Santayana was certainly not as democratic as James or Dewey in political theory, but followed the classical tradition of Plato and Aristotle in associating democ - racy with demagoguery and in favoring a form of intellectual timocracy.

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • It follows that the freedom of teachers to teach and of students to learn is essential to democ - racy, to progress, to the security of a way of life com - mitted to the maximizing of human freedom.

    ACADEMIC FREEDOM DAVID FELLMAN 1968

  • A liberal democ - racy for Dewey is a social order that can be achieved in a common faith by uniting thought and action against political, economic, and social injustice.

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • The enemies of liberalism do not say that freedom is willing submission to benef - icent authority, any more than they say that democ - racy is government for the people rather than by the people.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

  • Socialist and anarchist hostility to the state feeds on two beliefs that are different from one another though often confused: that the state is an instrument for the oppression of some classes by others, and that any vast and highly centralized structure of authority is incom - patible with individual freedom and genuine democ - racy.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

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