This per John Derbyshire's internet radio program. As Derbyshire says, you can't go far wrong with a quotation from George Orwell. This is from August 1940, while the Battle of Britain was raging, and the fate of the free world hung in the balance:
I wrote a long letter to the income tax people... Towards the government I feel no scruples, and I would dodge paying the tax if I could. Yet I would give my life for England readily enough, if I thought it was necessary. No-one is patriotic about taxes.
The title of the book of collected essays whence the quotation comes is entitled My Country, Right or Left. A sentiment worth noting, and attempting to emulate.
3 comments:
Orwell was a "Tory anarchist" and a firm believer in democratic socialism and this is the man who's sentiments you wish to emulate?
Interesting
I knew it!
Obama and Montana Headlines are both communists!
Explains a lot, doesn't it?
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