[lit-ideas] Re: Keeping our eye on the ball
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:29:42 +0900
On 2005/04/05, at 14:08, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:
> So, do you think the moderates in the Republican Party ought not be
> concerned, after all, then?
They should be concerned, very concerned. Point them to Federalist No.
1 and, in particular, to these prescient words:
> Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many
> other motives not more laudable than these are apt to operate as well
> upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a
> question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing
> could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has at all
> times characterized political parties. For in politics, as in
> religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and
> sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
John L. McCreery
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