In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.