Thoreau Smacks Down Clinton
02/26/09 - Corner.NationalReview by Fred Schwarz
Via AdviceGoddess
Liberal politicans love the image of Thoreau, living by a quiet pond, loving nature. They forget that he was sitting there as a tax protest. Thoreau:
[edited] Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
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