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godfry n. glad
07-06-2006, 02:30 AM
There for a while, I thought I was caught in an endless loop in the quote generator. I kept seeing the same 15-20 quotes. Now, I'm sure that whatever was causing congestion is no longer. Today, I got a good one. It could have been better on July 4, but July 5 is just as cautionary...

"Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."

Sadly, these words of Frederick Douglass still ring all too true.

Petra
07-06-2006, 05:10 AM
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.
~ George Washington , Farewell Address ~

Dingfod
07-06-2006, 03:33 PM
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
~ Karl Kraus ~