American Thinker
March 28, 2010
By Bruce Walker
We often confuse democracy with freedom. The greatest good of government is liberty -- that is what our Declaration of Independence emphatically states. Simply implementing the "Will of the People" is no more noble, true, or decent than the will of a kind and wise autocrat: democracy has no value at all, except to help keep us free.
The world today shows the tension between freedom and democracy.
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