QotD: An American patriot...from Great Britain!

A few months ago I linked a speech in the European Parliament where Brit Daniel Hannan unleashed his anger upon British Prime Minister Gordon Brown over the squandering of national wealth and the burdening of England with a welfare state that would make Trotsky proud. In case you missed it, listen to his speech here.

A few nights ago, he joined Sean Hannity on his eponymous program and his ability to articulate historical Americanism goes unmatched in the modern era...and he's a Brit! The video is a bit lengthy, but I want you to savor the words of someone with the deepest admiration for our nation. I almost stood and cheered!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Daniel Hannan:

"Your country is great and prosperous and free because government is constrained and because the visionaries who wrote your constitution who knew what they were doing when they drafted that document and who understood where unconstrained government leads because they fought against it. They created a system of checks and balances that would keep the state small and the citizen big.

"Now if you start going down this road towards a more European welfare model and more European health care model, more public spending, more spending on education, being nicer in your foreign policy, all of those things, you make your country less American. You make it more like everywhere else. And that isn't going to make people like you anymore, it's going to make them respect you less.

"The reason that your country is respected and honored in the world is precisely because it's been as your founders understood it, it's been the city on the hill. It's shown us how by adopting a model based on personal freedom and the decentralization of power based on Jeffersonian democracy and disbursed decision making, how you can make people prosperous and successful and strong. And the world owes you a debt. Because the vision of your constitution didn't just keep you free, it inspired your fathers to take that freedom to other continents as well."

Pass the fish and chips! Why can't foreigners like that run for office? Instead we get Ah-nold. Alas. If you'd like to hear the entire exchange, click it here.

By the way, let me encourage you to forward his words or the links to his videos to those you know. Our national fabric is unraveling. So grab a needle and thread and forward this to friends and family.

God's peace!