Wisdom Writ in Silence

We've been "enjoying" a discussion with a commenter who believes we're all illiterate barbarians because we don't agree with him. In his first four comments he called me/us 13 different insulting names. (Obviously a Liberal)

Among the jewels my wonderful readers used in the debate is this beauty: A quote by Calivin Coolidge, contributed by Van. And it's a show stopper, the perfect response to those hair-brained idiots who think the Founding Fathers and the government they created are "out of date", you know "18th Century Dead White Men"*

"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. "

I guess there were times Silent Cal wasn't...eloquently.

I'm carrying this in my pocket...for every time some pinhead starts with the "Constitution needs to evolve with the times" bullshit.

The Gunslinger

Enemy of the Imperial State

*Isn't Karl Marx a 19th Century Dead White Guy? (1818-1883)