Quotation

Democracy

Stories From the Long Road to Freedom
"Democracy has gained adherents in the context of this global order - though admittedly in fits and starts. Can it continue to do so if America and others withdraw from the responsibilities of the system they created? What will happen to those who still seek liberty in a world told to go its own way? What becomes of those still living in tyranny if we cease to tell others that democracy is a superior form of government and that its tenets are universal? We cannot possibly know the answer to those questions, but we do know that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - populism, nativism, protectionism and isolationism - served neither democracy nor peace the last time around."