Sarah Vowell Quote
In other words, ideas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. As the British historian and politician Lord Acton described the effect that our Revolutionary War had on our French allies, What the French took from the Americans was their theory of revolution, not their theory of government—their cutting, not their sewing.
Sarah Vowell
In other words, ideas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. As the British historian and politician Lord Acton described the effect that our Revolutionary War had on our French allies, What the French took from the Americans was their theory of revolution, not their theory of government—their cutting, not their sewing.
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