Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Democracy is not about one party dominating.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.