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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Quote unquote: Winston Churchill on false optimism “There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool’s paradise.”
– Winston Churchill, quoted in this review of Ripples of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Ah, I love quotes from the old war criminal. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
War Criminal? WTF?
Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill’s contemporary, once told Americans they had “nothing to fear but fear itself”. It’s hard to imagine a more vacuous or tautological utterance, yet this “insight” gave people hope at a time (the 1930s) when there seemed to be little reason for hope.
FDR was engaged in political leadership, and his aphorism is (or was) known to every American school-child. Churchill himself was, on occasion, known to engage in similar rhetoric.
Del
T.J. was most likely sitting on his head when he wrote that.