Visitor Center, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, January 6, 2010
Politics and World Affairs
Politics is not something I want to dwell on here but once in a while I run across a passage I can't help but clip.
Transcript of Barack Obama's Speech on Race and Politics
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."
Internal Intrigues
The internal intrigues of our monied and landed and slaved aristocracies are and will be our ruin.
Politics and the English Language
....Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs.
George Orwell 1945
Party Differences
To me then it appears that there have been differences of opinion, and party differences, from the establishment of governments to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our country, that these will continue through all future times: that everyone takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution and the circumstances in which he is placed...
Collection: Politics and World Affairs