There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
Democracy is a process.
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.