Posted on 03/29/2010 7:09:08 AM PDT by kosciusko51
"At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society."
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
"If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: 'But the greatest of these is speech.' In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none."
"The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy."
Governor Tarkin?
he cut taxes, stood up (however poorly) against Communism.
You are close...
Somehow, I hear these words in the voice of Ronald Reagan. You know, the fellow who wrote out hundreds of brilliant radio speeches in long hand and who the left kept calling a “dunce”.
Nor would brother Bobby...
Good guess, but no. However, the author does have an infamous California connection.
Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon?
I don't if that says more about how the Democrats have changed, or something about me...
‘JFK would never be nominated by the Rat party today.’
JFK would have a hard time getting on the GOP ballot today with all the damn RINO’s and a extremely left winged media.
That is a better than I have with my wife, and we've lasted 28 years so far!
But it is amazing how far left the Rat party has moved. They are the Soviet Union in philosophy.
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
"First, is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or woman can do against the enormous array of the worlds ills--against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and the thirty-two year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal."
I think this is appropriate for our current situation:
"A revolution is coming--a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fourtunate enough-- But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability."
I very much agree with his words and ideas.
Bobby ... we hardly knew you.
He might have made a good President.
The problem is that these two events played a crucial role in the change of the Democrats to what we have now.
Bobby is something else. They were both Catholic and rich, whose father Joe had made his fortune dealing whiskey with boot leggers during prohibition. (unlawfully.
Bobby was attorney General as I recall.
Raises some intriguing possibilities. One man can indeed impact history. The right time and the right place and the right actions .... When the issues are wrong ideas, wrong actions, it creates upheaval.
How much better America would be if JFK and his brothers had never been born.
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