AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 9/9

When the course of civilization takes an unexpected turn for the worse we naturally blame anything but ourselves. – FRIEDRICH VON HAYEK (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992)

AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 8/9

Totalitarian regimes are usually helped into power by the very people they intend to enslave.

AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 7/9

The whole of society will have become a single office and a single factory with equality of work and equality of pay. – NIKOLAI LENIN (1917)

AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 6/9

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion for equality made vain the hope for freedom – LORD ACTON (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902)

AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 5/9

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself – Hilaire Bellóc.

AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 4/9

We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become. – BENITO AMILCARE ANDREA MUSSOLINI

AMERICA IS FINISHED: PART 3/9

There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: “A republic, if you can keep it.”