The death of democracy is not ...

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
 Robert M. Hutchins

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.
 Robert M. Hutchins
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
 Robert M. Hutchins
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
 Robert M. Hutchins
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
 Robert M. Hutchins
Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
 Robert M. Hutchins