… is from pages 178-179 of John Chamberlain‘s 1982 autobiography, A Life with the Printed Word:
But what the experience of my own dissident pilgrimage among the “scribblers” who have set the intellectual fashions of the past half century tells me is that the Left has nothing more going for it beyond its willingness to use force or deception in order to stay in power. It can suppress, but it has never managed to revive the spirit of innovation anywhere.
Jack Kemp has had some sharp words about a Republican Party whose symbol is the elephant. The elephant should remember what happens when it identifies itself with big business whose CEOs, managerial rather than entrepreneurial in psychology, compromise with the spirit of socialism in order to “get along.”….
We did not unsettle the Old World merely to reestablish its repressive ways in the New.
