«"The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations... has no occasion to exert his understanding... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."»
Not the last word (Score:2)
One thing that has often struck me as curious about conservatives in the US is their misguided worship of Adam Smith. Adam Smith was undeniably a genius, but modern conservaties have recreated him after a fashion that I suspect he would object to. Adam Smith was not a laissez-faire capitalist who felt their was no role for government as demonstrated by another telling quote on that page: