“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election”
Bill Vaughn
“I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms”
Walt Whitman
“If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word - voluntary”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
