February 21, 2007
Truer Today Than Ever Before: Quote of the Day
Think of this the next time someone tells you that the UN should be in charge of [insert issue]:
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last
stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people,
that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still
the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to
man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity
for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and
confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan
our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan
How I miss that man!
Thanks to Aaron for passing it on.
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The founding fathers would not call what we have self-government. At least, not in the way they understood it.
Posted by: paul at February 21, 2007 10:17 AM
