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    Quote Originally Posted by wynn View Post
    This is probably the perfect discription of a 'Conservative' form of Government, not a 'Nannie' you can't do this Government but 'Conservative' in that it does not interfere except when people step over the agreed lines of crime, corruption, and lack of delivery of services.
    I'm a bit of a Tory too

    Emerson’s views on politics championed democracy and individualism, two ideas that are viewed today as undoubtedly American. By 1844, Emerson, then 41, had moved into a pragmatic balance of skepticism and idealism, happily providing him with “a way to dream as well as a way to live”.[1] A quintessential American voice, Emerson believed that civilization was only beginning and could reach unfathomable places through moral force and creative intelligence.[2] This alone is not a reason to blindly follow the footsteps before us. Remember, he says, “The law is just a memorandum.” This gives rise to the most popular quote in this essay: “The less government we have the better.” (wikipedia)
    It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

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    Extract from the heading “PRUDENCE”

    The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the
    god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy.
    It is nature’s joke, and therefore literature’s. The true
    prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge
    of an internal and real world. This recognition once
    made, the order of the world and the distribution of affairs
    and times, being studied with the co-perception of
    their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    For our existence, thus apparently attached in nature
    to the sun and the returning moon and the periods
    which they mark,—so susceptible to climate and to country,
    so alive to social good and evil, so fond of splendor
    and so tender to hunger and cold and debt,—reads all its
    primary lessons out of these books.
    It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

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