Ordway Tead - Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

- Ordway Tead

source: Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

topic: Mean, Sacrifice, Self, Individual Personality, Enlargement, Totalitarian State