by jflatnote | Aug 8, 2014 | Featured, Quotes
The legitimate object of government is ‘to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves’. Abraham Lincoln, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P....
by jflatnote | Nov 2, 2012 | Nerd Stuff, Quotes
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Dennis the Peasant, Monty Python and the Holy Grail ...