Prophetically Speaking
Prophetically Speaking…
Tuesday January 21st, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Source: “Marmion”, Canto VI, Stanza 17. Source Reference Famous Sir Walter Scott Quote
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Monday January 20th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.” Polybius, (ca. 203-120 BC,) Greek historian. Source Reference Polybius Quote
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Friday January 17th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.” Charles Kingsley, (1819-1875) English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist. Source Reference Charles Kingsley…
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Thursday January 16th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.” John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848) 6th US President. Source Reference John Quincy Adams Quote
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Wednesday January 15th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“…The very definition of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.’” John Adams, (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: “Thoughts on Government” January, 1776. Source Reference John Adams Quote
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Tuesday January 14th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another, they both march in the same direction.” Paul Proctor, American columnist. Source Reference Paul Proctor Quote
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Monday January 13th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, [Vladimir Ilyich…
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Friday January 10th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.” Justice William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Public Utilities Commission v Pollack, 1952. Source Reference Famous Justice William O. Douglas Quote
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Thursday January 9th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” Justice Felix Frankfurter, (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Source Reference Justice Felix Frankfurter Quote
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Wednesday January 8th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down … Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to…
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Tuesday January 7th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end…
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Monday January 6th, 2025 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars: the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic. Source Reference…
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