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Old August 4th, 2013 #61
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot lift the wage earner by tearing down the wage payer.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.



You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.

You cannot establish security on borrowed money.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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Old August 6th, 2013 #62
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Bernanke, Coolidge, and Buchanan: On Timing Your Departure

By Gary North

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August 6, 2013

In American history, there have been two Presidents who have been perceived as time-servers who knew that a crisis was coming: James Buchanan and Calvin Coolidge. Buchanan did not get out in time. Coolidge did.

Buchanan is generally rated by American historians as among the worst Presidents in American history. This has been true ever since 1948.

Credit, or blame, for the first scholarly ranking of the presidents usually goes to Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr., who conducted a poll for Life magazine in 1948. He asked 55 specialists in American history to rate the presidents as great, near great, average, below average, or failure. Abraham Lincoln topped the list, followed by George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Claiming the cellar of that list were Warren G. Harding and, in ascending order, Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, John Tyler, Benjamin Harrison, and Herbert Hoover.

U.S. News updated this in 2010. The bottom: Andrew Johnson. The next-to-last: Buchanan.

Polling of conservative and liberal historians produced the same result for the best: Lincoln. So, the two worst were the men who preceded and followed Lincoln.

My conclusion: do not send your child to major in American history in college. I speak as someone with a Ph.D. in the field.

Lincoln made a decision to bring the South back in because, as he said in his first inaugural address, he wanted to make certain that the union could collect tariffs.

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In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.


It was not this phrase that made him the supreme master of rhetoric, but it surely identified him as a faithful Republican Party office-holder in 1861.

He fought the war for tariffs, and yet he is regarded as the greatest President of American history. The historians make this assessment by means of a 150-year strategy: they never mention why he fought the war. He said why, but they refuse to cite his first inaugural address. They elevate his second inaugural to holy writ: “with malice toward none, with charity to all” — and high tariffs. It cost about 750,000 lives, but he surely was able to secure those tariffs.

Buchanan attempted to avoid Civil War. Johnson attempted to heal the country after the Civil War, and the Republicans in Congress kept him from doing this. They impeached him in the House, and almost convicted him in the Senate. He was not in charge of his office.

Why blame Buchanan? It is typical of liberal historians that they give him low marks. They blame him because he was unable to settle the issues that were facing the country with regards to secession. It was under Buchanan that the John Brown raid took place in 1859. After that, there was no possibility that the Republican Party could come into power and not produce secession. Everybody knew it in late 1860. Buchanan knew it. He did his best to keep the lid on, but it was obvious by 1859 that the election of 1860 would probably lead to the breakup of the United States.

People forget how important the John Brown raid was. It was the central event of 19th-century America. Brown believed that he could create the momentum for a slave uprising. This was the number-one fear of slave-owners in the South. They took them seriously. Even more important, they took seriously the wave of pro-Brown editorials in the big-city Northern press. They really believed that the North was fomenting revolution in the South. Brown created that belief. It was by far the most important single act of political terrorism in the history United States.

Buchanan was glad to get out. By the time he left, the South had seceded. He was the President of a country that had broken apart. The country no longer existed as it had in the previous November. What was Buchanan to do? He was at the end of his term. Was he the man to invade the South? Why would he do that? Lincoln had the responsibility, not Buchanan. Lincoln was the reason why the South had seceded. What was Buchanan going to do to persuade the South not to secede, since it was the election of Lincoln that had persuaded them to secede?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/g...dying-history/
 
Old August 6th, 2013 #63
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He fought the war for tariffs, and yet he is regarded as the greatest President of American history. The historians make this assessment by means of a 150-year strategy: they never mention why he fought the war. He said why, but they refuse to cite his first inaugural address. They elevate his second inaugural to holy writ: “with malice toward none, with charity to all” — and high tariffs. It cost about 750,000 lives, but he surely was able to secure those tariffs.
Ah, but how the Holzers, Foners & McPhersons love to state that the war was over slavery and slavery alone; oh, the tariff, a total non-issue - just a lame excuse used by unreconstructed rednecks to hide their racism.....
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Ah, but how the Holzers, Foners & McPhersons love to state that the war was over slavery and slavery alone; oh, the tariff, a total non-issue - just a lame excuse used by unreconstructed rednecks to hide their racism.....
Funny how these leftist kike 'historians' are all about economic motives, except when it serves their purose to claim higher morality.
 
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Funny how these leftist kike 'historians' are all about economic motives, except when it serves their purose to claim higher morality.
Those usurping lumps of camel shit, whose furry ancestors scurried off the boats at Ellis Island long after the war, have no right to open their liva lipz about the most traumatic catastrophe in American history, in which OUR ancestors fought & died.

If you want to lie about history, kikes, get your stinky asses to Jizzrael where you belong. Ya know - "The Land Without a People and a People Without a Land", ad nauseam......
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Old August 9th, 2013 #66
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When urged to force the seceded states back into the union Buchanan correctly observed that nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorized such action.

In Jewspeak he was an isolationist. Hence his low rating.
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This is off subject, but I need some info. Did Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest ever meet with President Grant and make a deal concerning the KKK? Do any of you know anything about such a meeting?

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Old January 8th, 2022 #68
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Lincoln knew how to use the EBT card in order to get Congress to do his bidding and to keep the Union Army running financially. Jefferson Davis couldn't compare because he wasn't as shrewd and came from a background of an easy life with slaves taking care of his needs. Davis didn't develop advanced ability in manipulating minds because he didn't have a rough frontier life to mold it that way.
 
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