Thursday, January 22, 2009

Best totalitarian headline of the day

From Time magazine, "Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: Humility, Gratitude, Sacrifice."

Best totalitarian lines from the same story:
And then he brought it all together, the challenge and the duty and the promise: "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task." This was the day's catechism and call to arms.
We will perform our assigned duties gladly. There is nothing so satisfying as giving our all to the government's tasks.