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RE: The Liberal Section (USA EDITION)
March 22, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Dear, Rev
That was random
-The God Zeus
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
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RE: The Liberal Section (USA EDITION)
April 1, 2011 at 9:12 pm
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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
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RE: The Liberal Section (USA EDITION)
April 1, 2011 at 9:31 pm
When fighting a war that you are winning (by far), yes. It's a good argument. Don't accept a little planet over in the corner of the galaxy as part of your peace treaty: ask for five planets. If they deny you, it means they think they still have a chance. And if they think this: build yourself up even larger. If they say 'yes, please take them!', it means they are weak, and you should accept their offering, and raze down what little they have left.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day