IF EVER A PHRASE DESERVED QUOTATION MARKS... this is it, from a newspaper report on European unification:
" While hailing the ceremony as a "joyful event" taking place in Western civilization's "cradle of democracy..." "
...because we all remember the esteemed history of Spanish democracy (Franco ring a bell?), French democracy (Napoleon, anyone?), Italian, German and Greek democracy. How many countries on that continent have actually been democracies longer than the U.S. (Great Britain aside, of course)? Just curious.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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