The touchstone of value

william smith
2 min readJun 5, 2021

It’s hard to believe the name of a xenophobic bigot like donald trump will appear along with those of former Presidents of the United States like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy to name just a few.

During a speech in South Africa Robert Kennedy said:

the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value

Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal of any western society.” —…

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