Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, War

• The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Democracy, Dictator, Judgment

• I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  War, Lying, Support

  "The Secret of Victorious Living: Sermons on Christianity Today". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1934.

• Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spring, Political, Democracy

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1931). “Adventurous Religion”

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