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"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

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Obama still seems to believe this - Pennsylvania paper in 1863 editorial calling Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 'silly'

Obama can't make the Commemoration! "Copperheads" of the World Unite! Why go to the 150 year commemoration of one of the finest speeches written and given. It was just a speech given by a dead, white, Republican. This old Civil War stuff happened before the Year Zero, when Obama was born. m/r

Pennsylvania paper retracts 1863 editorial calling Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 'silly' | Fox News

When it comes to correcting the record about a timeless speech, no retraction is too late.
One-hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln passionately appealed for the preservation of the union in the Gettysburg Address, the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania, known back then as the Patriot & Union, is retreating from its stance in 1863 that Abe’s Civil War speech was “silly.”
 “In an editorial about President Abraham Lincoln’s speech delivered Nov. 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, the Patriot & Union failed to recognize its momentous importance, timeless eloquence, and lasting significance,” the paper wrote on its editorial page Thursday. “The Patriot-News regrets the error.”
“We pass over the silly remarks of the president.”
- Harrisburg Patriot & Union editorial from 1863
The address and its history, of course, have long since been woven into the fable of American history. An appeal for the preservation of the union and a plea that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth, Lincoln’s timeless words were delivered at a commemoration for a cemetery honoring the nearly 8,000 men killed at the July 1863 battle. The speech would become venerated not only for its elocution and purpose, but for its connection to the crucial battle, which marked the south’s last incursion into northern territory for the remainder of the war.
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