Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

The soul of liberty is love of law.

How central shall democracy be in everything else we want to do in the world?

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.