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Thought For the Day: You Can Only Protect Your Liberties In This World By Protecting the Other Man’s Freedom. You Can Only Be Free If I Am Free
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” – Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)
Thought For the Day: In the United States There Is No Phenomenon More Threatening To Popular Government Than the Unwillingness of Newspapers To Give the Facts To Their Readers
“In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.” – Nelson Antrim Crawford (1888-1963)
Thought For the Day: Only the Small Secrets Need to Be Protected. The Big Ones Are Kept Secret by Public Incredulity
“Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.” – Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
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Thought For the Day: The Real Rulers In Washington Are Invisible and Exercise Power From Behind the Scenes
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” – Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
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Tagged Behind, Exercise, Invisible, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Power, Real, Rulers, Scenes, Thought For the Day, Washington
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Thought For the Day: An Ounce of Mother Is Worth A Pound of Clergy
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” – Spanish proverb
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Thought For the Day: Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is to Narrow the Range of Thought?
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” – George Orwell
Thought For the Day: The Difference Between A Welfare State and A Totalitarian State Is A Matter of Time
“The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.”– -author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
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Thought For the Day: Whereas Each Man Claims His Freedom As A Matter of Right, the Freedom He Accords To Other Men Is A Matter of Toleration
“Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.” – Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
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Tagged Accord, Claim, Freedom, Mankind, Matter, Matter of Right, Other Persons, Thought For the Day, Toleration, Walter Lippmann
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Thought For the Day: There Is Not Less Wit Nor Less Invention In Applying Rightly A Thought One Finds In A Book, Than In Being the First Author of That Thought
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” -Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)
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Thought For the Day: It Hurts My Soul To Hear the Terrible Names That People Call Donald. The Worst One Is ‘Racist’.
“It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald. The worst one is ‘racist.’ I take it as a personal insult that people would think I would have a 37-year friendship with a racist. People who … Continue reading
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Tagged Deep South, Donald Trump, Friendship, Growing Up, Hershel Walker, Hurt, People, Personal Insult, Racist, Soul, Terrible Names, Thought For the Day, Up Close
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