Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

I've posted this before, but it keeps coming up on my smart phone, and I keep getting floored by how timely this speech remains. It's as if he's talking about the present day.
1 posted on 05/09/2022 5:01:58 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: Eleutheria5

> It’s as if he’s talking about the present day.

It’s an inherent problem with government. It’s intrinsic. There will always be someone who imagines that power in the hands of the “right people” is automatically beneficial, yet historic counter-examples are so common that we have expressions for it: “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely,” or “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” or “for every problem in human affairs, there is always a solution - simple, neat, and wrong.”

A reasonable heuristic to follow is to maintain skepticism towards any proposal to expand government in order to solve a problem, no matter how wonderful it may seem. People who ridicule those skeptics should be considered would-be tyrants, no matter wonderful they imagine themselves.


2 posted on 05/09/2022 6:43:29 AM PDT by no-s (Jabonera, urna, jurado, cartucho ... ya sabes cómo va...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Eleutheria5

Ronald Reagan... The best there ever was and the best there ever will be.


4 posted on 05/09/2022 6:51:20 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Eleutheria5

The Great Society has now become The Great Reset.

The globalists know it is now or never.

Putin can go down as the hero who helped topple the western capitalists in favor of a socialist utopia.


9 posted on 05/09/2022 8:03:02 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson