"The era of the state church has been replaced by an age in which the state itself is the church. European progressives still don't get this: they think the idea of a religion telling you how to live your life is primitive, but the government regulating every aspect of it is somehow advanced and enlightened."
-Mark Steyn
"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business...frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite." —Ronald Reagan
"The era of the state church has been replaced by an age in which the state itself is the church"
ReplyDeleteIs that what GWB means when he talks about the advice and counsel he gets from the big man upstairs?