Historical Quote?!?

Question

for history class i have a quote and i ahve to write a 500 word essay on it. with reasons to back it up.

my quote is ..

" a man may die, a nation may rise and fall, but an idea lives on"

i need help though

my first reason is going to be about democracy because it started way back and still today..

but i needed help with some other reasons and what not.

i also need to find a book that will help me, that i can check out in the library. that would be so much help..

and websites.

thanksss so much. [:

Answer 1

Something else you could add to the essay would be the idea of Communism and how it contrasts to the idea of Democracy.  Some good books on Democracy would be:

"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine

"Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine

"Two Treatises of Government" by John Locke (this is where Thomas Jefferson got a lot of his ideas for the Declaration of Independence)

A good website on Democracy would be:

www.america.gov (there's a link to Democracy around the world)

If you decide to contrast Democracy with Communism, another idea that fits your quote, here are some books:

"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx

"Materialism and Empiriocriticism " by Vladimir Lenin

Hope that helps you out some!