As Barack Obama gurgles the collectivist mindset that “we rise or fall as one nation, as one people,” it is fitting to recall the contrasting thoughts of William Bradford of the early 17th century Plymouth Plantation: “At last after much debate of things, the governor gave way that they should set corn everyman for his own particular… That had very good success for it made all hands very industrious, so much [more] corn was planted than otherwise would have been … The experience that has had in this common course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst Godly and … Continue reading A Vivid Contrast