Greg wrote: > <<About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It > is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since > 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us > a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very > well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning > can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that > is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If > governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that > is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If > anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in > which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the > time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the > people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to > progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more > ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.>> > > Calvin Coolidge, July 4, 1926
That works - thanks. mao _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
