The Brown Report: Gonna Give It Another Try!

"It's no use saying 'We are doing our best'. You have got to do what is necessary."

Winston Churchill

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

Edmund Burke

"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton

"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

"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution."

Justice Louis D. Brandeis

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

Monday, October 01, 2007

Gonna Give It Another Try!

I'm back! I haven't actually gone anywhere. Just kind of lost the motivation to put my thoughts on paper (figuratively speaking). I guess I ran into the "what's the use?" wall.

But enough of that. I've been posting quite a few comments on other people's blogs, and I got to thinking that I should start putting them on my own again. So here goes... (by the way...I think I'll try to write shorter essays this time. Some of my previous entries got kind of wordy.

The Brown Report

Monday, October 01, 2007

Gonna Give It Another Try!

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