Two quotes:
“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.”
— Newt Gingrich
Hat tip to Theo for these…
Posted by DaveH at October 28, 2009 07:02 PM | TrackBack