On 08/09/2005, at 6:31 AM, Wayne Culberson wrote:
> " The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the
> private
> affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble,
> through
> the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official
> recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our
> independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our
> greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or
> German who
> expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked,
...and rescue him when drowning? Perhaps there are times when
'rugged individualism' is not the most useful characteristic?
AndrewF
- who dislikes trite political epithets which are rarely questioned
because they are from 'great men' (liked the novels tho')
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