The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.