{"id":1298,"date":"2010-11-15T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:28:09","slug":"on-politics-from-ben-franklin-to-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"On Politics &#8211; from Ben Franklin to the Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Honesty is the best policy. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Words may show a man&#8217;s wit but actions his meaning. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">What is conservatism?\u00a0 Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. &#8211; Martin L. Gross<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.\u00a0&#8211; Franklin D. Roosevelt <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I think it&#8217;s about time we voted for senators with breasts.\u00a0 After all, we&#8217;ve been voting for boobs long enough. &#8211; Clarie Sargent<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Washington<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">, D.C.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"> is a city lying in the gutter, wallowing in hypocrisy. It has become a bizarre sinkhole of character assassination and smirking self-righteousness. It will eagerly cast not only the first stone but any other rocks that it can lay it hands on. &#8211; <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Wall Street Journal Editorial <\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin Honesty is the best policy. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin Words&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}