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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: goldworldnet who wrote (265233)6/19/2002 12:59:17 PM
From: Frederick Smart  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
The Eternal Monument of Proof...

>>http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/presidency/inaugural/fragments.html

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest of purposes. Should, hereafter, those who are intrusted with the management of this government, incited by the lust of power & prompted by the supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction & sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable--and if I may so express myself, that no wall of words--that no mound of parchmt can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.>>

Thanks goldworld!!

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (265233)6/19/2002 4:21:57 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769667
 
More George Washington:

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

Those who blindly follow the Bush/Cheney lead into "irresponsible action" may find themselves in awful straits before long. Stoking the flames of war is not wise, just or useful.