Great strip! I liked the "Veep"
I know it's off, but close.
Posted on 08/27/2008 7:16:19 AM PDT by Loud Mime
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry 1775 - speech in the Virginia Convention
"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck."
Thomas Jefferson 1822 - letter to James Smith
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Thomas Paine The Age of Reason
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.
Alexander Hamilton 1788 - Federalist No. 31
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That first quote seems appropriate for the Convention.
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Good stuff.
The Thomas Paine quote reminds me of pro-life Democrats like Biden and Pelosi who sacrificed their principles to party loyalty. I firmly believe they were raised to believe abortion is a mortal sin, and that in the back of their slimy little minds they know that is true.
This conceit and self-centered character is the embodiment of today's Democrat.
Marion Barry, Vista Hotel, 1990
>>”Bitch set me up” Marion Barry, Vista Hotel, 1990>>
Also:
“Set me up, bitch” Frank, Hellraiser, 1987
>>When the most innocent can be slaughtered for a person’s
own desires of convenience, that person has confirmed that
they believe in themselves more than they believe in any
final authority or judgement.>>
Quite a condemnation of the feminist breed, who average more than one aborted child each.
“We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it.”
. . . . . Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural address, 4 March, 1905
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and others of similar weak character . . . take note.
If the citizens of the US allowed character and virtue to guide their lives, there would be no Pelosi, no Clinton, no Reid, no Schumer, no Carville.
In short, today’s Democrats would not be in power, but in prison.
I believe that statement to be correct. But, if we are to think TR's quote to be true, then we have to ask ultimately whose fault is the present state of affairs. In the immortal words of Pogo, "We is us."
Great strip! I liked the "Veep"
I know it's off, but close.
My all-time favorite little critter { 8^)
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