Today in 1946 the UN General Assembly met for the first time in London. It is also the anniversary of the founding of the League of Nations. Will they never learn?
On the plus side, its also the anniversary of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
Some Common Sense money quotes:
- Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
- Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.
One Trackback
[...] Archenemy notes a dark anniversary. [...]