My mood today: political!

This collection of quotes below courtesy of The Daily Kos. I challenge you to see if you are in agreement with these and thus could truly be called a conservative. If this were the only qualification, I would be right there!

Open Thread and Diary Rescue
by SusanG
Sat Jan 12, 2008 at 08:13:08 PM PST

On this day in 1729 Edmund Burke was born. According to Wiki, as well as being an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who supported the American Revolution, he is also often regarded by conservatives to be the father of Anglo-American conservatism. Let’s have a brief look at a few of Burke’s musings to see how the current crop of conservatives measures up to the standards of their “father.”

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”

“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”

“Patience will achieve more than force.”

“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”

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