A Perfect Parody
posted by Trochilus @ 2/14/2012 10:32:00 AM
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Trochilus Tales
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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- Location: New Jersey, United States
Former state employee NJ, veteran, attorney, golfer-with-issues (not by choice), pet major domo, and pragmatic conservative.
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Churchill added:
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(Both quoted in "Churchill By Himself" by Richard M. Langworth.)
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... Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish."
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay, British Historian and Whig Politician, in an 1857 letter to an American friend as quoted here, ht, here.
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