Sunday, June 17, 2007

Building Blocks of Democracy

What fosters liberty and democracy is a stable middle class with the education, time and money to read newspapers and books and magazines, volunteer for local and national leadership positions, volunteer at the local school and to be willing to invest time and money in free education, a well-trained police force, justice in the court system and good government.
— Jean Wallace, Kirkland

3 comments:

ELAIS said...

Such an appropriate quote.

Thanks for sharing!

Haddock said...

Sounds like common sense to me ... and there's not so much of that around anymore :)

Papadesdeux said...

The question of course becomes, how to bring about and maintain that stable middle class.