Posted on 10/28/2002 5:21:47 PM PST by William McKinley
Edited on 10/28/2002 5:32:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I love it.
America was the great home of the natural leveller, which was the land itself. Anyone could go and get the land they needed to use to raise themself up, and all of the poorest had the same opportunity to take it.Emphasis mine. I think that most every conservative would lose most of their objections to any sort of levelling that involves raising up rather than tearing down (knowing, of course, that absolute levelling could never occur with that constriction).
Agreed. What I meant by my extension of the argument was that levelling of oppty or wealth by the goverment was not possible...because of the land.
If I felt repressed back then, I could move to Texas!!! NOW WHERE DO I GO!!!! :-(
I did not find the greatness of America in her farms, her natural resources, her vast land, her political system, but in the thundering righteouness that sounded from the pulpits of her churches'
Thanks.
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her fertile fields and boundless forests; and it was not there.
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her rich mines and her vast world commerce; and it was not there.
I sought for the greatness of America in her public schools and institutions of learning; and it was not there.
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her democratic congress and her matchless constitution; and it was not there.
Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pupits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. P. 34
Sounds good -- but I don't think it is authentic. See THE TOCQUEVILLE FRAUD The Weekly Standard November 13, 1995 By John J. Pitney, Jr. for a more detailed explanation.
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