Posted on 05/13/2016 3:40:36 PM PDT by 3161J410
Lord Palmerston to Lord Clarendon. 1859
The refrain of the Austrian song to us is If you love us and have any regard for us or for making us happy, do for Heaven's sake help us to continue to tyrannise over the Italians and to make them as unhappy for the future as we have made them in the past. The truth is, there is a passion in the human heart stronger than the desire to be free from injustice and wrong, and that is the desire to inflict injustice and wrong upon others, and men resent more keenly an attempt to prevent them from oppressing other people, than they do the oppression from which they themselves may suffer.
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All the more reason for the UK to leave the EU. However, since they were careless enough to elect a Muslim Mayor who seems to hold open contempt for west many western values, and wants to stay in the EU, that is less likely to happen now.
I just returned from a visit to the UK; everyone I talked to expressed a desire to leave the EU.
Germany (AND Italy) didn't even become their own unified countries until the 1860's. Austria is an OLDER country with royalty and such for a long time. Mozart was performing and composing in Austria long before that.
Maybe my history is off. If so...sorry.
Do they explain why they HAVEN'T? It MUST have to do with money.
Austria - Still trying to convince the world, that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German.
YES, they are.
You would NOT be surprised that many Americans who never took history WOULD believe it.
Well I know one prominent American who thinks they speak Austrian in Austria.
It wouldn't have mattered if Jospeh II hadn't done away with Latin as the administrative language of the empire.
People all over the world can love their countries and throw off the shackles of their oppressors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyT9jTW7MHc
Trump Train
No one explained that to me but I think the perceived benefits of trade in the EU convince many that it was a good deal. Now, they see the EU as an un-elected dictator and they would like their country back. Oddly enough, the UK retained the Pound while Ireland adopted the Euro.
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