Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
So Kennedy was a Communist? Would you, as an American, do something that would profit yourself but hurt your country?
Believe it or not, but America's way of life and communisum have this same comon goal as "My first duty is to my country", as "My first duty is to myself" would be Anarchy.
When J.F.K. said ask not what your country can do for you but etc...
I had a chill run up my spine!
The people that repsonded to WWII did so together MORE because of the preceived threat to their way of life. Rather then for for their country.
"Men who deny individual rights cannot claim, defend or uphold any rights whatsoever. ... The liberals are guilty of the same contradiction, but in a different form. They advocate the sacrifice of all individual rights to unlimited majority rule - yet posture as defenders of the rights of minorities. But the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." ~~ Ayn Rand
I think I need to add in the thought that there is IMHO nothing wrong with a little anarchy if we remember.............
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do then in what we are free not to do." Eric Hoffer
American philosopher.
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." Oscar Wilde Anglo-
Irish author.
"I think that the sacredness of human life is a purely municipal ideal of no validity outside the jurisdiction. I believe that force, mitigated as far as may be by good manners, is the ultimate ratio, and between two groups of men
that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force . . . It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men."
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
American jurist
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am." ~~ Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)