Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.