Sujet : Re: OT: Congress
De : ads (at) *nospam* clipboardinc.com (Owen Hartnett)
Groupes : rec.music.classical.recordingsDate : 11. Nov 2024, 04:32:48
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On Nov 10, 2024 at 1:57:04 AM EST, "DeepBlue" <
dan.koren@gmail.com> wrote:
"There is no distinctly American
criminal class except Congress."
-- Mark Twain
"REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing
governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to
enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of
public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from
ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to.
There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between
the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead."
-Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"