Governor Tarkin?
he cut taxes, stood up (however poorly) against Communism.
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”.
“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."
How much better America would be if JFK and his brothers had never been born.