Memories
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Back in my collegiate days, I was required to prepare a term paper on free speech, and one of the research authors was John Stuart Mill, a famous English philosoper and scholar in the 1800s. He said, “We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is false opinion, but even if we were sure, stifling it would still be evil”. Powerful message. Just the kind of well turned phrase one might expect from an edudite philosopher. That quote came to mind a few days ago when I noticed another famous quote attributed to the same Mr. Mill. The article that included the second quote was about our military forces in Iraq. He said, “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. How true!
When I see the nine Democratic Presidential midgets, I think of those who would swear by the first quote and ignore the second – and that includes Mr. Kerry and Mr. Clark In their ongoing effort to tear down the President and the Military, they show their colors and make John Stuart Mill look taller than ever. But of course, times like these provide plenty of opportunity for good quotes. One of the harshest and nastiest members of the denizens of the left is Hollywood's own Michael Moore about whom it has been said, “Moore has been dragged out of the gutter, which makes the gutter a cleaner and better place. Take a good look at him and make up your own mind”. The Moore quote isn't mine, but I wish it were.