Seems like only a partial quote, and thus it deserves a low rating until such time as a more accurate reproduction of the statement can be made.

A sad but insightful truth about human nature...

Would that it were otherwise...

A very keen observation that also applies to society today... makes one wonder when he said this.

... not only spent more, but more importantly, at the same time creating windfalls for his big buddy business pals and letting those who benefit from his anti-little person policies get away with it without paying for it... the big lie is that they are neither "compasionate" nor "conservative"! Explain TANSTAAFL to those making more than $1M/year!

Yes, and military excess for needless and unjustified "war" is the biggest problem, followed by a lack of social justice allowing the robbing of the poor's right to a basic healthy life to pay for the excesses of the rich.

Sounds like a reasonable excuse to be fiscally successfull... and socially responsible in obtaining and enjoying with that success to me!

And it continues to be so today...

A perfect description of evading social responsibility by the rich for those the rich got rich on...

Actually, it seems to say that "we, the whole people,..." not just women, not just men, not just white... but ALL of us...

Pitty the source of this widsom...

In a recent multi-state drive I could not help but notice how the basic infrastructures of this country are falling apart... certainly we see that by looking at what the Bush administration is doing (and just as importantly not doing).

... from both threats without... and within... and most importantly, from those who are "from the government and are here to help".

The key word seems to be "count", as in expect. While the two are certainly not incompatible, one must be prepared to defend freedom through non-peaceful means when necessary... and yet, once one has truely attained true freedom, then perhaps it is the case that true peace will also follow...

What words ring more true in this day and age... when so many in our own government are so eager to take our freedoms from us.

Alas, sometimes it takes strength & violent acts to get attention enough to bring undertanding...

The one justifcation, sadly sometimes necessary... Gulf War I is a good example... Gulf War II is a bad example...

Would that another such reformer would step forward again...

Just going to show that Islam is as negitive as Christianity... both telling us how horrible our current existance is and holding out vague promices of future bliss in some metaphysical non-existance that follows our current physical existance...

While the sentiment is nice, the detail is backwards (as it is in the "Golden Rule" too)... better is to "do unto others as they would have you do unto them"...

As "god" was created in our own image, to meet our own needs, one could follow a line of thought to the above quote, but the more direct line is that men govern the affairs of men, and that the sparrow falls to the ground due to pure physics, unnoticed by any but those physical beings present to watch physics in action...

... nor can we deny you your freedom to follow a path other than the one we see as the more valid one... a two way street with many many paths...

This is a good list, even if it is highly abbreviated... there are many other sources which are as good to study... some religious, and some not... now about that "education president" and that party that takes food out of the mouths of hungry children... guess it is pretty clear how they feel about our children and raising them with good values...

Too bad there are so few professed Christians today who can be considered "good Christians"... there is too much hate taught as if it is Christianity for these folks to claim any moral high-ground in their religion.

How long will it take for posters here to declare that this is proof positive that the founders intended us to be a "Christian nation" while convientently forgetting that there are many other religions, and not all of those believe in a "higher being".