evidence: Thomas Paine "…the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist." "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Franklin D. Roosevelt "The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind – men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves." Margaret Thatcher "All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual." E.B. White "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." John F. Kennedy "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.