Monday, August 15, 2011

Abraham Lincoln's August 24, 1855 Letter to Joshua Speed Reminds Me of Authoritarian Corporativists Like Mitt Romney and the Koch Brothers Today

"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.'
When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created
equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to
this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no
pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism
can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy."

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