tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8833883665331780387..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident Yada YadaGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6911641283219575832017-03-06T15:07:04.582-08:002017-03-06T15:07:04.582-08:00Calvin Coolidge was the best President of the 20th...Calvin Coolidge was the best President of the 20th Century. He deserves a place on Mt. Rushmore much more than TR. As much as I admire Theodore Roosevelt as a person, he was a progressive and, these days, he would be in with the neo-cons. We should have stayed out of the empire business.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-31017708164634596942017-03-06T10:17:51.262-08:002017-03-06T10:17:51.262-08:00"...No advance, no progress can be made beyon..."...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..."<br /><br />That speech is One of my <a href="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/p/presidential-messages.html?m=0#Inspiration" rel="nofollow">all time favorites</a>.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66202529049848345922017-03-06T10:07:47.047-08:002017-03-06T10:07:47.047-08:00Those who wish to proceed in that direction can no...<i>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.</i><br /><br />Heh. Should the left ever discover the truth of this statement, they would instantly claim for themselves the title of "traditionalists" or possibly even "conservatives." Then resume doing everything they can to drag mankind back to the stone age.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com