The Taste Of Democracy Becomes A Bitter

It Is Almost As Easy To Be Enervated By Triumph As By Defeat.

The Politics Of Surprise Leads Through The Gates Of Astonishment Into The Kingdom Of Hope.

Principles-and I Have In Mind Such Principles As States' Rights Or National Sovereignty Or The Free Market Or Pacifism-have A Way Of Drying Up While The Sap Of Life Goes Flowing In Another Direction.

Meiklejohn'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?

To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.