All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.