Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British.
Copy QuoteFollow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Copy Quote View & ShareAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
Copy Quote View & ShareIndependence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Copy Quote View & ShareOriginality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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