From Calvin Coolidge:
"About the Declaration there is a finality that is
exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a
great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts
and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the
people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard
their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can
not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal,
that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is
final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of
the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made
beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or
their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed
historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when
there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the
people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay
claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more
modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary
fathers."
Understand?
Progressive: Wo, wo, wo. You're defending dead white people with another dead white guy's opinion? Oh, that's rich."
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I always love listening people defend a position on the grounds times have changed and are therefore more complex than another period. Bunch of crap.
I hear that from Quebecois nationalists all the time try to sell their snake oil - Quebec's society is complex. No it isn't. Read Homer and then try and tell me we're more "complex."
Complex to them, simpletons to me.
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