« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 11:10:21 AM »
Very Reaganesque, not much to disagree with. I would like to see republicans speak that clear, get elected and follow through. Not much chance of that but that really is our only hope.
Someone should have escorted the woman with the irritating cackle of a laugh out of the room
This quote he used from de tocqueville is a classic:
"The soft despotism will become more extensive and milder and it would degrade men without tormenting them. It is absolute, detailed, regular, far seen and mild. It would resemble paternal power if like that it had for its object to prepare men for manhood. But on the contrary, it seeks only to them fixed irrecoverably in childhood. It willingly works for their happiness but it wants to be the unique agent and arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, for sees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principle affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estate, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living...It is that every day it renders the employment of free will less useful and more rare. It confines the action of the will into a smaller space and little by little, it steals the very use of free will from its citizenry. It reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.
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For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
