{"id":785,"date":"2010-02-22T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=785"},"modified":"2010-02-22T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:54:34","slug":"on-politics-from-kierkegaard-to-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"On Politics &#8211; from Kierkegaard to George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use. &#8211; Kierkegaard<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. &#8211; E.B. White <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man&#8217;s character, give him power. &#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;\">Don&#8217;t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability. &#8211; John Wooden<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. &#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;\">How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? &#8211; Charles De Gaulle<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Ideas are for more powerful than guns. We don&#8217;t allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? &#8211; Joseph Stalin <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety &#8211; by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblin, all of them imaginary. &#8211; H.L. Mencken <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction. &#8211; Jean Jacques Rousseau<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that they are thieves. &#8211; Henry David Thoreau<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Politics is made up of two words. &#8220;poli&#8221; which is Greek for &#8220;many&#8221;, and &#8220;tics&#8221;, which are bloodsucking insects. &#8211; Gore Vidal <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. \u2013 George Bernard Shaw <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. &#8211; Helen Keller <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I stand by all the misstatements I may have made. &#8211; George W. Bush <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use. &#8211; Kierkegaard Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. &#8211; E.B. White Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man&#8217;s character,&#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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}