"The transition from democracy to tyranny, Plato says, is most easily brought about by a popular leader who knows how to exploit the class antagonism between the rich and the poor within the democratic state, and who succeeds in building up a bodyguard of a private army of his own. The people who have hailed him first as the champion of freedom are soon enslaved."
-- Karl R. Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Page 43
As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials."Hat tip to Theo for these... Posted by DaveH at October 28, 2009 7:02 PM
-- Newt Gingrich