Quote of the Day - American Exceptionalism

Quote of the Day - American Exceptionalism

Since the golden age of Greece, there has been only one era of reason in twenty-three centuries of Western philosophy. During the final decades of that era, the United States of America was created as an independent nation. This is the key to the country—to its nature, its development, and its uniqueness: the United States is the nation of the Enlightenment. - Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels

And yet, as Billy Beck observes, we now seem headed for The Endarkenment - a point made even more ironic by AlGore's latest tome, since it's his side of the aisle doing most of the attacking.