The Baha'i Studies Listserv > It is only those who do not understand our people, who believe our national > life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the > fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things we want much more. > We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of > all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I > cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. > > President Calvin Coolidge, January 17, 1925
Dear Stephen, Coolidge is not a president remembered for his idealism. > > You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a > right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the > ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to > the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their > humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have > embarked on this downward course. > > Ronald Reagan, Republican National Convention, 1964 LOL. I remember Ronald Reason denouncing Medicare with this long speech about how we would one day tell our children what it was like to be free. Without Medicare we would be begging our children to pay our medical bills! > Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, > liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human > race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and > those who have no such desire. > > Robert A Heinlein He wrote much better science fiction. ;-} warmest, Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-542626-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
