Friday, December 5, 2008Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans who have been working to commit this country to the rule of the bureaucratic state; interfering in the affairs of the states and cities; taking part in the management of industry and finance and agriculture; assuming the role of great national banker and investor, borrowing billions every year and spending them on all sorts of projects through which such a government can paralyze opposition and command public support; marshaling great armies and navies at crushing costs to support the industry of war and preparation for war which will become our nation’s greatest industry; and adding to all this the most romantic adventures in global planning, regeneration, and domination, all to be done under the authority of a powerfully centralized government in which the executive will hold in effect all the powers, with Congress reduced to the role of a debating society.
— John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching [1944]Tuesday, December 2, 2008
It is therefore most especially in the present democratic times that the true friends of the liberty and the greatness of man ought constantly to be on the alert, to prevent the power of government from lightly sacrificing the private rights of individuals to the general execution of its designs. At such times, no citizen is so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed; no private rights are so unimportant that they can be surrendered with impunity to the caprices of a government.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835]
Monday, December 08, 2008
Great quotes from FFF
From recent editions of the Email Update from the Future of Freedom Foundation:
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4 comments:
I see John T Flynn wrote his comment during World War II. Posting this around the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor I find it interesting that he espouses a policy of isolationism and weakening military might after we were attacked by the Japanese and had war declare upon us by the Germans and Italians.
I am not sure that this really helps your arguments.
9:13 --
If you had read Flynn's books you'd have a different opinion. Truth rarely emanates from government. You'd be wise to recognize that.
So the attack on Pearl Harbor and the follow on declarations of war by Germany and Italy are lies perpetuated by government?
2:48 --
How about reading one of Flynn's books first? You expect to debate when you have no sense of the argument at hand.
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