Seri Ahmad Sarji bin Abdul Hamid Quotes
Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.
Seri Ahmad Sarji bin Abdul Hamid, Chief Secretary to the Malaysian Government, Chair of the Institute of Kefahaman Islam, Conference, Dialogues: Islamic World – U.S.– The West Workshop, Amman, Jordan, March 6–8, 2004
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The only soldier ever so honored. At the beginning of WWII, President Roosevelt and Churchill wanted the U. S. Army to invade German and Italian North Africa. Marshall, General Eisenhower, and all the other military men, advised that while it was possible, it would be a diversion from the strategic objective of invading Europe. None the less FDR ordered the invasion. The effect on the American people was wonderful, It showed that the Germans were not invincible, increased enlistment and morale at home, and developed more popular support for the war. Later, Marshall learned much about Democratic leadership and he, himself became a very effective government leader, and began to appreciate FDR’s approach but with a little cynicism about democracy.
Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
