Meeting of the Minds: Reagan and Hayek"The Englishmen who not only 'the language speak that Shakespeare spake' but also 'the faith and morals hold that Milton held'."
"...independence and self-reliance, individual initiative and local responsibility, the successful reliance on voluntary activity, noninterference with one's neighbor and tolerance of the different...respect for custom and tradition, and a healthy suspicion of power and authority. Almost all the traditions and institutions in which democratic moral genius has found its most characteristic expression, and which in turn have molded the national character and the whole moral climate of England and America, are those which the progress of collectivism and its inherently centralistic tendencies are progressively destroying."
In this regard, John Bolton was on to something when he described President Obama as "America's first post-American President." Although, one could probably look back much further to President Wilson as the primogenitor of the post-American presidency.
Woodrow Wilson and the World
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