Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, September 20, 2013

Why America is an Exceptional Nation

Nothing exceptional here.
Putin isn't expected to understand our exceptionalism. The KGB couldn't brief him on it. Too bad for us that Obama doesn't get it either. m/r

Why America is an Exceptional Nation

by BURT FOLSOM on SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Last week, President Putin of Russia told Americans, it is “extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional.” But we Americans have often viewed ourselves as an exceptional nation because our history is different from that of everyone else.

Typical nations are formed in warfare by conquering neighboring tribes and expanding. The Franks conquered many of the Germans in the time of King Charlemagne, and the Franks soon became France. Likewise, President Putin’s Russia expanded into a large nation purely through conquest. The way that one got to be known as “The Great” in Russian history was by conquering nearby land and absorbing it into the Russian empire—Peter the Great and Catherine the Great are examples.
America has always been different. Our nation received immigrants from many nations, and they came here not to conquer, but to enjoy freedom. We are a nation built on an idea—the idea that with God’s help we can govern ourselves and “secure the blessings of liberty” to ourselves and our children.
We fought a war for independence to preserve the liberty we were enjoying. Robert Morris, the man George Washington called “the financier of the Revolution”, was from England. He migrated to America, fell in love with his adopted country, and fought to see it emerge as a new nation.
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