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
3 comments:
Found your blog through a link on your profile on Topix.
Very interesting and informative post. Have to say I agree with it completely.
Also want to ask a personal question.
Are you a graduate of St. Theresa High School? I graduated from there in '67 and I know there was at least one Caravallah there. Just not sure of the first name anymore. It sucks getting old. LOL
Elaine,
Elaine,
I hadn't intended this to be a personal e-mail site, but there are few St. Theresa grads around and fewer Carravallahs.
I graduated in 1966, my brother in 1967.
Send me a private note with your e-mail and mention maiden name, and we can reminisce.
Take care,
jim
That isn't ironic at all. In it's beginnings, the republican party was heavily liberal. Ida Tarbell, Susan B. Anthony, and many other famous reofrmists and activists for civil rights all counted themselves as republicans. The party was founded by anti-slavery activists in the mid 1800's.
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