State Support Quotes
Opponents of the strict separation of church and state use this quotation to support their view. However, Story herein describes public sentiment, not what was passed and ratified in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. See {614309} and {614310} for his statements from the same work that show that there was no question in his mind but that church and state are separated by the Constitution and the First Amendment.
There was a movement to pay married women who were housewives to compensate them for the time they spend in, if nothing else, educating and bringing up male children who were educated. It was they who transmitted the values and many experts agree have more to do with a child’s education than the schools do. So this important and critical societal task was not remunerated as were all others. At the time, even many of the feminists held the view that society would be better off if women were homemakers and brought up the children. However, without any pay (and at the time few or no rights to a husbands earnings of assets) she was bound to be a second class citizen. That idea of housewife compensation obtained almost no support, and the only way for women to gain some kind of position and equality was to work outside the home—the condition that became the norm about 30 years after this was written.
This view of the obsolescence of the family was one of the huge ideological chasms between Russia and the Western Democracies,
1st Viscount Snowden. This quotation is particularly interesting in that we have an early 20th century socialist acknowledging that one of the objectives of Socialism is to increase the individual’s dependency on the state. By the late 19th century, few socialists if any saw this as an objective of socialism. However, this dependency objective is one of the attack points of conservatives who assume that this is a result of socialism whether or not it was intended.
While Ben Gurion’s strategy has been successful with many Arab citizens of Israel, it has not been completely so that the standard of living of Israeli Arabs is on the average still not quite the equal of the Jewish citizens. For those Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, they have had the worst of both worlds—the occupation by Israel and dependence on the Palestinian Authority for economic development which has never occurred despite the fact that huge sums of money have gone to the Palestinian Authority for the purpose.
This was unfortuantely true. At various stages of American History, we have sided with some terrible dictators and overlooked their gross human rights violations, war crimes and aggressions, on the theory that the enemy of my enemy is to be supported.
