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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” Abigail Adams
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Sep 14, 20201 min read
Taxpayer
“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” ~Ronald...
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Sep 7, 20201 min read
Through a Glass Darkly
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish...
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Aug 31, 20201 min read
The Party's Over
“At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married...
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Aug 24, 20201 min read
History
“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.” ~ Malcolm Reynolds (character in the movies Serenity (Joss Whedon (2005)) #FavoriteQuotes
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Aug 17, 20201 min read
Slaves
“That we were slaves I had known all my life — and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold — but as long as...
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Aug 10, 20201 min read
Fruit of the Loom
“This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.” ~Rodney Dangerfield #FavoriteQuotes
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Aug 3, 20201 min read
Every Day
“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,...
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Jul 27, 20201 min read
Conservative v. Liberal
“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read
Best Government
"That government is best which governs least.” ~ Henry David Thoreau #FavoriteQuotes
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Jul 13, 20201 min read
Freedom
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it." ~Abraham...
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Jul 6, 20201 min read
Law & Government
“Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.” ~Henry Ward Beecher...
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Jun 29, 20201 min read
Rage
"Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible...
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Jun 22, 20201 min read
Anger
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."...
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Jun 15, 20201 min read
Political Language
"Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure...
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Jun 8, 20201 min read
Violence
"What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No...
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Jun 1, 20201 min read
Life Goes On
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~Robert Frost #FavoriteQuotes
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May 25, 20201 min read
Liberty's Alternative
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention...
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May 18, 20201 min read
Single Cause
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies...
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May 11, 20201 min read
Labor
Meditations, 3.5 Marcus Aurelius translated by George Long “Labour not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor...
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Apr 17, 20201 min read
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