Thursday, March 25, 2010

Virtues

Signature of Harry S TrumanNo government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.

-- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), 33rd US President, to a joint session of the US Congress (12 March 1947), outlining what became known as The Truman Doctrine

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