James Burnham Quotes
Where there is no alternative there is no problem.
Qtd. in Buckley, William F., Jr. Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography. Regnery Publishing, 2004.
Reverend Dow was writing for other ministers about the problem of dealing with the numerous contradictions in the Bible. There was no winning choice. Since then, the last two lines have been quoted by politicians when they percieve they have no good choices. For example, see Eleanor Roosevelt {630145}.
The Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in the assassination having smuggled in the weapons. However, the government takeover plan did not go as expected and there was no clear alternative plan to go to.
James Burnham was an American philosopher and political theorist. He chaired the philosophy department at New York University; His first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931). Burnham became a prominent Trotskyist activist in the 1930s. He rejected Marxism and became an even more influential theorist of the right as a leader of the American conservative movement. His book The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941, speculated on the future of capitalism. Burnham was an editor and a regular contributor to William F. Buckley's conservative magazine National Review on a variety of topics. He rejected containment of the Soviet Union and called for the rollback of communism worldwide.
