Thursday, February 22, 2007
RANDOM ORATIONS POST
Bright b-1811 d-1889 1858-on the english foreign polocy
-but I behold in its full proportions the hideous error of your governments, whose fatal policy consumes in some cases a half, never less than a third of all the results of that industry which God intended should fertilize and bless every home in England, but the fruits of which are squandered in every part of the surface of the globe, without producing the smallest good to the people of England.
----we have that which some people call a great advantage-the national debt-a debt which is now so large that the most prudent, and the most economical, and the most honest have given up all hope, not of it being paid off, but its being diminished in amount.
and here's the money quote!
-and during the period of the war, which now almost most men agree to have been wholly UNNECCESSARY, we were passing through a period which may be described as the dark age of English politics; WHEN THERE WAS NO MORE FREEDOM TO WRITE OR SPEEK,or politically to act, than there is now in the most despotic country of europe.
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here he goes into who has profitted. will see if i can destill it as it looked pretty long.
Bright b-1811 d-1889 1858-on the english foreign polocy
-but I behold in its full proportions the hideous error of your governments, whose fatal policy consumes in some cases a half, never less than a third of all the results of that industry which God intended should fertilize and bless every home in England, but the fruits of which are squandered in every part of the surface of the globe, without producing the smallest good to the people of England.
----we have that which some people call a great advantage-the national debt-a debt which is now so large that the most prudent, and the most economical, and the most honest have given up all hope, not of it being paid off, but its being diminished in amount.
and here's the money quote!
-and during the period of the war, which now almost most men agree to have been wholly UNNECCESSARY, we were passing through a period which may be described as the dark age of English politics; WHEN THERE WAS NO MORE FREEDOM TO WRITE OR SPEEK,or politically to act, than there is now in the most despotic country of europe.
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here he goes into who has profitted. will see if i can destill it as it looked pretty long.
