Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world
... and to all a good fight
Free Market News Network
by Thomas L. Knapp
12/20/05
'Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world,' said Benjamin Franklin, referring to the alphabet as printing press type (the quote, with varying numbers of "soldiers" depending on the alphabet in use, has also been attributed to Marx and Gutenberg). As succinct a summation as any, I think, of the correct notion that it is ideas which ultimately determine the disposition of people and things. Bad ideas produce bad results -- before Lenin and Stalin came Marx. Good ideas produce good results -- it took Paine and Jefferson to spur a country to 'fight for liberty' by decidedly more physical means. Every day, I see a dozen Paines, a dozen Jeffersons to the left and right of me, taking aim at the enemy and firing well-placed volleys (and me with my popgun, trying to measure up). Sometimes the effect is immediately visible. Sometimes it's delayed. But it's there, and it is felt...
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/118/3236/2005-12-20.asp?nid=3236&wid=118
Free Market News Network
by Thomas L. Knapp
12/20/05
'Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world,' said Benjamin Franklin, referring to the alphabet as printing press type (the quote, with varying numbers of "soldiers" depending on the alphabet in use, has also been attributed to Marx and Gutenberg). As succinct a summation as any, I think, of the correct notion that it is ideas which ultimately determine the disposition of people and things. Bad ideas produce bad results -- before Lenin and Stalin came Marx. Good ideas produce good results -- it took Paine and Jefferson to spur a country to 'fight for liberty' by decidedly more physical means. Every day, I see a dozen Paines, a dozen Jeffersons to the left and right of me, taking aim at the enemy and firing well-placed volleys (and me with my popgun, trying to measure up). Sometimes the effect is immediately visible. Sometimes it's delayed. But it's there, and it is felt...
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/118/3236/2005-12-20.asp?nid=3236&wid=118
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