“Instruct democracy if possible to reanimate its beliefs,
to purify its motives, to regulate its movements, to
substitute little by little the science of affairs for its
inexperience, and knowledge of its true instincts
for its blind instincts; to adapt its government
to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances
and men: such is the first duty imposed on those
who direct society in our day.”
Alexis de Tocqueville.
Excerpt from “On Democracy in America”,
a lot said in just one paragraph, don;t you think?
Islander.