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July 15, 2011
Heinlein: "In any advanced society, ‘civil servant’ is a euphemism for ‘civil master.’"
Because the present-day Republicans and Democrats are both big-government activists, they have a foundational philosophy that is the same: America is a problem to be fixed, and Americans are a people to be managed. --Sense of Events: Bush Republicanism = Roosevelt Democratism?, December 2003Posted by Vanderleun at July 15, 2011 8:38 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I tried to source the quote, and it came up this:
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." - Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein.
Posted by: Harvey at July 16, 2011 1:12 AM
ya can't let me enjoy missing GW for just a couple of days? This trend didn't happen over night. How old is progressivism? How old is the new world order? The lesser of two evils is the name of the game in our two-party system.
Posted by: RedCarolina at July 16, 2011 8:08 AM
As usual, Heinlein nailed it.
Posted by: St. Thor at July 16, 2011 9:07 AM
This bloke can pilot my airplane anytime he wants.
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Posted by: Jordan at January 5, 2013 5:41 AM
Still better journalism than IGN and Gamespot
Posted by: Aldo Valdivia at February 13, 2013 1:30 AM
I'm doing a research paper for my English 101 class. I decided to do it on frogs because I have two Pacific Chorus Frogs and a lot of people don't understand why there so important to our world. I knew there was a problem with the mutation of frogs but not the reality of how bad it really is. We need more people out there to inform the public on the side effects of not having amphibians in our world.
Posted by: Jospeh Burgy at February 13, 2013 9:51 AM