My conservative Quote of the day.

Self ^ | Self

[3boysdad]

You are most certainly allowed to disagree with my list and still be free. That was not the implication, but rather action over words. And I hope likewise that you don’t have a list that you expect me to agree with as well. If you did, then we would be standing at the abyss of equality.

My reference to “Give me Liberty or give me Death” was not realated to the previous portion of that post, but to the thread topic. I prefer simplicity to the inordinate complexity that reduces to the same precept. Liberty is all that I want, not equality. What about you?

[plymaniac]

"If the primary objective of the philanthropist, his justification for living, is to help others, his ultimate good requires that others shall be in want. His happiness is the obverse of their misery".

First. Obverse? Unless you are trying to persuade a college professor that you deserve an "A", just say "opposite". I'm lazy. And old. I can't reach my dictionary without getting up.

Just kidding.

Second. Your Conservative Quote of the Day reminds me of one of my old Philosophy classes where I was taught that the Scrooge that begrudgingly gave to charity out of a sense of obligation was "more moral" than the do-gooder that gave ten times as much because it was pleasurable. I always accepted that idea as basically true. Scrooge is a jerk who is nevertheless honoring a higher obligation. The Do-Gooder is a "good person" who really is just taking care of Numero Uno.

A charity might have a different point of view.

Which brings us back to your main point on an organizational level.

[TheHound]

Obverse - means sort of the opposite, but really means the other side of the coin.

What I am trying to do with my "quotes" is present a little more (200 - 300 words)of what the author is saying than the quotes found on calendars and such, so as to, maybe, produce a little more cerebral musing than just the emotional shot generated by a one line quote.

Look up my other quotes.