Tea at Trianon: The Tea Party Tribe

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Tea Party Tribe

"Adversity and abuse increase the awareness of separate identity and accelerate the secession of peoples from each other."

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2 comments:

Julygirl said...: E Pluribus Unum! That is the motto of our Country. We need to cling to that in spite of the factions that are tearing our Country apart rather than working together to resolve our problems. My mother used to use the term 'The Almighty Dollar', that is being worshipped in our country while we the people are left adrift like a boat with no sails. We are bombarded with useless vitriol that offers no solutions but brings in millions for those who spout it. Don't be fooled, they don't give a fig about America.; April 25, 2010 at 2:05:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Who doesn't give a fig?; April 25, 2010 at 3:03:00 PM EDT