Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top
May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny
May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals
May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet
May they all be soldiers
May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders
Denis Diderot
Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
Perfect riposte for Casey’s remarks about the 1780s! THAT is where his sophistry may come apart.
Hello Fossil!
How did you come up with that so quickly???? And just another added comment, The Divine Right if Kings has NOT morphed into the Divine Right of Wealth - but then that is what Diderot said in effect.