Hans-Hermann Hoppe on how the Founding Fathers felt about democracy

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it.  Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

Doug Casey: "U.S. founders modeled the country on Rome"

U.S. founders modeled the country on Rome, all the way down to the architecture of government buildings, the use of the eagle as the national bird, the use of Latin mottos, and the unfortunate use of the fasces—the axe surrounded by rods—as a symbol of state power.  Publius, the pseudonymous author of The Federalist Papers, took his name from one of Rome’s first consuls.  As it was in Rome, military prowess is at the center of the national identity of the U.S.  When you adopt a model in earnest, you grow to resemble it.

~ Doug Casey, "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire," International Man, August 31, 2022

Walter Williams on the root of today's political divisiveness

Perhaps the most tragic aspect of today’s division is that much of it is a byproduct of our education system where young people are taught to hate our nation’s founders and founding principles.  However, it is these principles, though practiced imperfectly, that have created the freest and richest nation in mankind’s history.  The question is if our nation can survive the widespread anti-Trump hate.

~ Walter Williams, "Is Getting Trump Worth It?," LewRockwell.com, October 28, 2020

Pat Buchanan on the toppling of statues

Portland’s statue of George Washington, the Father of his Country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated.

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In Portland also, a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood at the entrance of a high school named for the author of the Declaration of Independence was torn down. In New York, city council members demanded that the Jefferson statue in city hall be removed.

Anticipating what was coming, the New York Museum of Natural History got the permission of city hall to have the giant statue of Theodore Roosevelt astride a horse, flanked by an African and a Native American, removed from the front of the museum.

What was wrong with the 80-year-old statue?

Said museum president Ellen Futter, the problem is its “hierarchical composition.” Only Roosevelt was mounted. With Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt all under attack, three of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore are now repudiated by the left.

Our Taliban have moved on, past Columbus and the Confederate generals, to dislodge and dishonor the Founding Fathers and their patriot sons.

~ Patrick J. Buchanan, "How Long Will the Vandals Run Amok?," LewRockwell.com, June 23, 2020

John Bassett Moore on the American empire

There can hardly be room for doubt that the Founding Fathers of the United States, when they vested in Congress the power to declare war, never imagined that they were leaving it to the executive to use the military and naval forces of the United States all over the world for the purpose of actually coercing other nations, occupying their territory, and killing their soldiers and citizens, all according to his own notions of the fitness of things, as long as he refrained from calling his action war or persisted in calling it peace.

~ John Bassett Moore, Secretary of State in 1898, authority on international law, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 60, 1921