The objections (Kennan's) are, in some ways, similar to,
and as valid as, those made by European emperors and
their ministers to the European republics, especially
Republican France, after 1815.
He quotes Tocqueville in Russia and the West
Under Lenin and Stalin, "a democracy can only with
great difficulty regulate the details of an important
undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out
its execution in spite of serious obstacles."
i HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, or at least very very well founded, that the colonies, both before and after 1776, were hot beds of piracy, smuggling, disorder, sedition, reilgious sectional and political fanaticism, fragments of a proper European class society in shambles, and anarchy.
i HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, or at least very very well founded, that the colonies, both before and after 1776, were hot beds of piracy, smuggling, disorder, sedition, reilgious sectional and political fanaticism, fragments of a proper European class society in shambles, and anarchy.
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