This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace
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- It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
- A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
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- Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
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