"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion ..." from the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, June 10, 1797. I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers "Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory." The Moon is a Harsh Mistress-by Robert Heinlein The whole principle is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.
On censorship, in The Man Who Sold the Moon-by Robert Heinlein Back in pre-Revolutionary America "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons. -from Executive Orders by Tom Clancy | "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; Thomas Jefferson, in his historic Danbury letter, January 1, 1802 “The common people will let it go. Oh yes, they’ll sell liberty for a quieter life. -Mr. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. -Tom Clancy in the Sarah Schafer interview (1995) Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place. -Mark Twain What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us? (1899) |