I have noticed that Elizabeth has to ride in open horse drawn carriages pretty often. When the showed her on t.v. at Jamestown in a carriage, it suddenly occurred to me that she has to be thinking, “I’m old and I’m the bleeding Queen, I should be able to ride in something with air conditioning. I shouldn’t be downwind from a horses’ ass.”
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Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
- Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912 - 1989
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
- Indira Nehru Gandhi, 1917 - 1984
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 1694 - 1778
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
- Harry S Truman, 1884 - 1972
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
- Charles Krauthammer
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
- Henry Steele Commager, 1902 - 1998
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
- Anthony Trollope, 1815 - 1882
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
- Earl Warren, 1891 - 1974
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.
- Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it…. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
I decided to set up a blog for my political commentary and humor instead of jamming up this blog with it. If you are interested you can find the URL in the Blogroll or just click here.
I’m not sure why, but a person calling themselves AntiBush, posted comments which were attached to my about page that were AntiBush. I posted my replies and thought maybe a few quotes on the subject would be appropriate.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.-Adlai Ewing Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.-Adlai Ewing Stevenson
You can find my responses and the original posted comment under comments.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. –THUCYDIDES
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
_R.D. LANG
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistence.
ROBERT F KENNEDY
This is my BLOG on adding scrapbooking to your journaling as opposed to adding journaling to your scrapbooking. I think that it is more soul baring and therapeutic to journal with the visual aid of photographs or whatever you want to put on a scrap layout.
I have been surfing around and reading some scrap blogs. Most of them say little and give away much. Forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought the purpose of a blog was to say something. If they are used as a diary, some of these people have very dull lives, or are scared to expose themselves.
I can relate to the reluctance to hang it all out on the web, but if that is the case, why not just have a freebie site somewhere?
I would like to see more blogs geared toward teaching people how to get more journaling into their scrap layouts and possibly discussing design principles. Personally, I don’t have time to read alot of stuff going on in other peoples lives. When I do have some free time, I would prefer to be scrapping, reading or writing.
I am constantly seeking information on whatever subject that interests me for the moment.
In other words, I self educate. I have become pretty good at gathering information and putting it in a usable order. I am not sure how I can do this on the blogger system, but I am going to put up journaling promts and links to tutorials. I may still add links for freebies, but that would only be as a secondary purpose.
Since I am preaching journaling, I will upload some of my layouts I have done that are in the form of diary entries over a scrapbook layout, just to prove it can be done. This blog interface isn’t as conducive to photo uploading as Blogger is so to see the Layouts, you will find the link below under Scrap Therapy.
I have Categorised the Quotes below. Since I am working on the Great American Novel, there are some new categories for writers and readers.
 | C. Apana on Journaling Prompts Again |
 | Betty on Self Imposed Stress |
 | rupam on DISNEY SONG LYRICS |
 | Hummie on Being Preoccupied |
| Hummie on The Disadvantages of Being… |
