Secular Liberal Democracy

Famous quotes containing the words secular, liberal and/or democracy:

    “peace hath her victories
    No less renowned than war; new foes arise,
    Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains:
    Help us to save free conscience from the paw
    Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of—well, instead of the sort we are at present.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)