Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the worst presidents in American History, said it was a privilege to pay more taxes, buy more bonds, forego extra profits, and fight for your country. Amazing. What he's really saying is that your a government slave, and when the government creates a crisis or gets us into war, you'd better do what they say. Really. I thought it was a free country.
"It is not a sacrifice for any man, old or young, to be in the Army or Navy of the United States. Rather it is a privilege. It is not a sacrifice for the industrialist or the wage-earner, the farmer or the shopkeeper, the trainman or the doctor, to pay more taxes, to buy more bonds, to forego extra profits, to work longer or harder at the task for which he is best fitted. Rather it is a privilege. It is not a sacrifice to do without many things to which we are accustomed if the national defense calls for doing without."
From FDR's radio address on December 9, 1941, two days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Much recent scholarship indicates FDR pushed Japan into attacking the U.S. Quote thanks to Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs.
In a civilized society, should anyone or any government ever force anyone to do anything against his or her will as long as that person does not infringe upon the life, liberty, or property of another?
Thursday, November 22, 2007
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