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To: Kaslin

The principle our country was founded upon was not equality. It was freedom.

The French revolution was about equality.


12 posted on 05/23/2016 5:29:02 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: MNnice

Nice.

I’m going to quote you in the future.


28 posted on 05/23/2016 5:45:59 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: MNnice

You nailed it. And in doing so, echoed Russell Kirk’s definition of liberals versus conservatives. A conservative, he said, favors liberty over equality.


34 posted on 05/23/2016 5:55:10 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: MNnice
The principle our country was founded upon was not equality. It was freedom.

The French revolution was about equality. ~ MNnice

Exactly!

56 posted on 05/23/2016 8:36:29 AM PDT by antonia (A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow)
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