Mount Rushmore circa 2108 political parody by Doctordawg.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character. - Theodore Roosevelt
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln
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As Jefferson said in his first inaugural:
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
History has answered this question with terrible certitude in the 20th century. “The unfortunate thing,” Pascal said long before, “is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.”
-- from “The Cycles of American History” by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
It is telling about the history. The Sermon on the Mount is a compilation of Jesus sayings epitomizing his moral teaching.
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Anderson smith
Addiction Recovery Washington
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