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Thread ID: 11476 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-12-15
2003-12-15 03:31 | User Profile
Warren G. Harding calls for a "Return to Normalcy"
[QUOTE]Warren G. Harding calls for a "Return to Normalcy," Boston, MA, May 14, 1920.
There isn't anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been draughts upon the dangerous cup of barbarity, and men have wandered far from safe paths, but the human procession still marches in the right direction.
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
It is one thing to battle successfully against world domination by military autocracy, because the infinite God never intended such a program, but it is quite another thing to revise human nature and suspend the fundamental laws of life and all of life's acquirements...
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy, not revolution, but restoration.
This republic has its ample tasks. If we put an end to false economics which lure humanity to utter chaos, ours will be the commanding example of world leadership today. If we can prove a representative popular government under which a citizenship seeks what it may do for the government rather than what the government may do for individuals, we shall do more to make democracy safe for the world than all armed conflict ever recorded.
The world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation, and that quantity of statutory enactment and excess of government offer no substitute for quality of citizenship.
The problems of maintained civilization are not to be solved by a transfer of responsibility from citizenship to government, and no eminent page in history was ever drafted by the standards of mediocrity. More, no government is worthy of the name which is directed by influence on the one hand, or moved by intimidation on the other...
My best judgment of America's needs is to steady down, to get squarely on our feet, to make sure of the right path. Let's get out of the fevered delirium of war, with the hallucination that all the money in the world is to be made in the madness of war and the wildness of its aftermath. Let us stop to consider that tranquillity at home is more precious than peace abroad, and that both our good fortune and our eminence are dependent on the normal forward stride of all the American people. ...
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2003-12-15 05:00 | User Profile
Faust, this is very good posting, as these words are so needed in our times today of blithering nabobs of sophomoric wit on talk radio. I shudder to think what the Rotarian type's across the U.S. are sucking in the Telivetz. Numbing..........
2003-12-15 05:22 | User Profile
When was normalcy, exactly? 1840?
The future will be one of constant warfare, genetic engineering, space and oceanic colonization. It wont be normal; it will be barely be human. But there may be a place for a strong white race.
2003-12-15 07:00 | User Profile
Space travel and living in space is B.S. and a big rip off like Itsalie............... Until recently, I thought the folks yelling that we did not land on the Moon where nut's, like some UFO RENSE/ART BELL nutz.. The Van Allen belt made sense to me, and on practical level look the Astronauts did not mingle with the public very much at all, they avoided public contact. When we totally lost our govt. once and for all on Dec.7 1941, with that murderous filthly lie of a suprise attack, the filth that should have been arrested in 1933 and was not, was when the U.S. totally lost it's govt. that cared anything for white America. The Carr Brother's of Wichita, to the D.C. Sniper, idiot's will not only not wake up, but will behave like Amy Biehls parent's and fly to S.A. and forgive the rapist's and murderer's of their own dead daughter.. A government that did Dec. 7 1941, is epoxyed in place, and will do anything to stay in power, ANYTHING. Long Shanks is a piker to the thugs in charge. There is perhaps a planned die off, as it appears to me as we have reduced our agraculture in this country significantly, and destroyed our top soil and imported millions of white hating/raping/terror savages who hate U.S. with their dual citizenship, and want our daughter's and grannie's too, along with the kitchen sink. Better give it to them with a smile.. Huh?