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Originally Posted by Duchemin
A socialist said here : "Europe is an idea, not a reality"... An idea shared by many politicians it seems.
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A Prime Minister said here (just last week): "The concept of nation is just theoretical, not real".
If all these politicians were given a hoe and were made to work from dawn to dusk to earn a decent living like the people who build the nations used to do, they wouldn't waste time pretending that they are thinkers when in reality they are not endowed with the ability to thinking, let alone reasoning.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–