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SpaceCommand User ID: 1009022 United States 03/04/2013 11:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.google.com (secure)] [link to www.merriam-webster.com] Definition of POTEMKIN VILLAGE : an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition Origin of POTEMKIN VILLAGE Grigori Potëmkin, who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel "With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." William Wordsworth And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Lincoln's economic advisor Henry C. Carey explained the universal issue in his 1851 Harmony of Interests: "Two systems are before the world.... One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other ... the American system, for ... elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein |