Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it revive—and grow. We know it cannot die—because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise—an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority. We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will. We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.
These remarks were made by FDR in his third inaugural address on January 20, 1941.
Is democracy dying? Not according to FDR, or many of the present-day leaders. Many references have been made to democracy throughout the years…some good and some bad…but it far outshines the other alternative forms of government.
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