Mark Alexander: John Kerry, Useful Idiot: "'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents....'
--James Madison

Nineteenth-century historian Alexis de Tocqueville once observed, 'Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.'"
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A most perceptive read.