What is the origin of the quote:

Democracy is not an easy road, but it is the road we have chosen together.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 10 Sep 2002 14:36 PDT

I have not found anything very close in wording to your quote. It
might be helpful if you could tell us where (and approximately when)
you encountered the quote.

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Clarification of Question by dmarcov-ga on 10 Sep 2002 14:51 PDT

Unfortunately, the clarification is not going to help very much. It
was in a signature line -- and I wasn't able to place it -- hence my
trip to google answers.

Heard it on the History Channel early one morning. Probably one of our
founding fathers, but I can't promise you. Try historychannel.com
maybe?

Rudy Giuliani said something similar...

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020909/agiuliani.html?cnn=yes
"I'm an optimist. Our way is the way of the future. Nation after
nation sees that and embraces democracy. It is not a perfectly smooth
road. But it's undeniably the way the world is headed. And that's a
good thing..."