Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Quote for the Era
From bartleby.com:
What an a great, awesome question or three this raises. Are we keeping it? Can we? Do we have the will and the ability?
For that matter, is Franklim, in a sense, very, very wrong? Is the problem a bottom up one -- at Franklin intimated, are the masses, as it were, dropping the ball?
Or is it a failure at the top, of a leadership that is anti-Republic?
QUOTATION:
“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
ATTRIBUTION:
The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention.
What an a great, awesome question or three this raises. Are we keeping it? Can we? Do we have the will and the ability?
For that matter, is Franklim, in a sense, very, very wrong? Is the problem a bottom up one -- at Franklin intimated, are the masses, as it were, dropping the ball?
Or is it a failure at the top, of a leadership that is anti-Republic?
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