Prophetically Speaking
Prophetically Speaking…
Friday July 12th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” David Brin, (1950- ) Author. Source Reference David Brin QuoteDavid Brin Quote
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Thursday July 11th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the…
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Wednesday July 10th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and keep government free. The people ought, therefore, to pay particular attention to these…
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Tuesday July 9th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them – and…
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Monday July 8th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man” David Harris, (1946-) American journalist, author. Source: documentary ‘Carry It On’ (1970). Source Reference
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Friday July 5th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Don’t forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism – it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does…
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Thursday July 4th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Over the 20th century, the federal government has assumed a vast and unprecedented set of powers. Not only has the exercise of those powers upset the balance between federal and state governments; run roughshod over individuals, families, and firms; and…
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Wednesday July 3rd, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General. Source: first inaugural address, 20 January 1953. Source Reference
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Tuesday July 2nd, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” Felix Emmanuel Schelling,…
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Monday July 1st, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677). Source Reference
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Friday June 28th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The businessman’s tool is values; the bureucrat’s tool is fear.” Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum], (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Source Reference
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Wednesday June 26th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in behaving themselves.” Thomas Szasz, (1920- ) Author, Professor. Source: The Second Sin, 1973 ….
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