Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Reagan-Obama Debate on the Nature of Government

Via Roger Kimball comes this piquant and all-too-relevant collection of quotations by the late, great Gipper and the current president, shaped into a debate.

One of the most best lines from The Reagan about the ultimate choice: ". . . whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves."

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