“Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) American academic
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p.16
“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”
Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
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