Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes About Democracy
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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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 themselves, and perhaps more so.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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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 in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.
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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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