Tea at Trianon: Death of the Bogey Man

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

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Death of the Bogey Man

Joshua Snyder has collected some compelling posts, all worth reading. And here is a quote from Steve Sailer quoted by Serge at A Conservative Blog for Peace:

He was an official guest of the Deep State of Pakistan. They’ve been scamming us for billions of dollars for years pretending to help us chase Osama Bin Laden while they’ve been sheltering him in their equivalent of West Point, Annapolis, and Colorado Springs rolled into one. Maybe the elected leaders didn’t know, or didn’t want to know because they might end up as dead as Benazir Bhutto.

Iosue Andreas Sartorius said...: Merci!; May 3, 2011 at 9:15:00 PM EDT
Julygirl said...: Our government wants to take away my hard earned Social Security but continues to give Billions to Pakistan. Our bridges are collapsing and, yes, there are American children going hungry, yet in one week they spend enough on 'nation building' to solve all our budget problems.; May 3, 2011 at 9:38:00 PM EDT