Max Lerner Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

  Max Lerner

  Military, War, Giving

• Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

  Max Lerner

  Issues, Government, Self

• The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

  Max Lerner

  Democracy, Taste, Bitter

• Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

  Max Lerner

  Past, Democracy, Done

  Max Lerner (1939). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

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