Crime -- A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Bush administration -- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Why the government should help the unemployed -- Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Why school taxes aren’t bad -- I am a part of everything that I have read.
Wall Street investors -- I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Bush administration (2) -- I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Corporate tax breaks -- It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Unions -- It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Bush’s background -- Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Terrorists’ Constitutional rights -- No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Terrorists’ Constitutional rights (2) -- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
On the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections -- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Bush administration (3) (Scooter Libby’s commutation) -- Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Terrorists’ Constitutional rights (3) (Patriot Act) -- Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Bush administration (4) -- People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Bush administration (5) -- Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Bush accepting responsibility for mistakes -- The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Terrorists’ Constitutional rights (4) -- The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Bush administration (6) (Katrina relief failure) -- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Terrorists’ Constitutional rights (5) -- The things that will destroy
Bush administration (7) -- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Now that I've got it down, I have to admit.
There's an irony to all this.
I stole the thoughts from a Republican leader:
Teddy Roosevelt!
Take care,
jim