“We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.” ImportantMatterGovernmentGloryResponsibleArchitectUgliness Author:Charlie Pierce
“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.” HeartMayGovernmentSpiritNotionExperimentsIndividualismRuggedAmerican SpiritRugged IndividualismHuffing Author:Charlie Pierce
“There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.” SelfReasonGovernmentTogetherPoliticalOrderProduceProductsProductionsReason WhyLatterCommonwealthSelf-government Author:Charlie Pierce
