When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
All birth is unwilling.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.