Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
Max LernerEvery step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
Max LernerMeiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
Max Lerner