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Show DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP The definition of Democracy by Mussolini, Italian patriot and revolutionist, is given as "the progress of all through all, under the leadership of the best and the wisest." Progress and leadership that move the world and humanity forward are possible only through the individual. President Coolidge touched this point is his address, August 2, 1923: , ."Action can come only from ourselves; society, government, govern-ment, the state, call it what you will, cannot act; our only strength, our only security, lies in the individual." Leadership is not in the multitude. The development of leadership under a Democracy is predicated predicat-ed on knowing what the people in the mass are thinking, what they are capable of supporting. It can be set down as sound psychology that the people want what is right, and under fair-minded, intelligent intelli-gent leadership will render right decisions. Under vicious, selfish or unwise leaders they are capable of committing the greatest wrongs in public affairs, and a democracy can as certainly be brought to ruin as was the monarchy under Louis Sixteenth, by absence of leadership not meeting the test of the wisest and best. Ignorance is the worst foe of democracy, and only wise leadership leader-ship dissipates ignorance. |