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12-29-2008, 02:01 PM
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"In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are
no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder." --Pearl S. Buck
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12-29-2008, 03:46 PM
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Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. -------------------- There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none . . . If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others . . . Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs. -------------------- Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor [Lincoln] had lived, the vials of wrath would have been poured out upon him. -------------------- There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws. -------------------- If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country. -------------------- I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it -------------------- The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people -------------------- It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -------------------- Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. -------------------- We have no legal authority more than private citizens,and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us.This broad principle limits all our functionsand applies to all subjects. -------------------- I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace. |
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