Presidents and Mythology

Andrew Napolitano
tenthamendmentcenter.com
February 22, 2013

The following was Judge Napolitano’s closing argument on his FreedomWatch Presidents’ Day Special in 2011.

Does the government work on behalf of the people or do the people exist for the benefit of government? Is history a recollection of things that have actually happened, or a narrative deployed to legitimize power and the crimes that led to the acquisition of that power? Tonight, on this President’s Day, state-sanctioned history, the Presidents of the United States, and you.

In the last hour we’ve heard that some of the Presidents often billed by historians and the public as “the greatest” were anything but. To be fair, it’s difficult to be a great person when your job is to head an organization like the State that is rooted in deception, theft, and murder. And we know from Lord Acton that no great man is a good man.

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This article was posted: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 2:46 pm

Tags: constitution, domestic news

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