“The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to everlasting change.”
The Cycles of American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 422
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 5
American historian, social critic, and public intellectual 1917–2007Related quotes
Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1928). The last sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol.
Judicial opinions
Context: The defendants' objections to the evidence obtained by wire-tapping must, in my opinion, be sustained. It is, of course, immaterial where the physical connection with the telephone wires leading into the defendants' premises was made. And it is also immaterial that the intrusion was in aid of law enforcement. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
“As though adding the word democratic in front of a word changes what it means.”
Source: https://www.prageru.com/video/democratic-socialism-is-still-socialism/
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (1965), Penguin Books, translated by Anna Bostock.
Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
David Packard (1960) cited in: Bruce Jones. "The Difference Between Purpose and Mission." in Harvard Business Review, Feb. 02, 2016.
Acceptance speech at Republic National Convention (September 2, 2004)
2000s, 2004
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”