“Those who would change a culture corrupt its language, particularly by hiding the reality of an evil they desire behind a less revealing name.”- George Orwell
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According to Alexander Tytler in The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, the great democracies of history have tended to last only a couple of centuries, during which time they have progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to […]
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”—Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”—Alfred, Lord Tennyson “As we celebrate this July 4th, there is much to be thankful for and, as Tennyson admonishes us, much to challenge. An election year in which a president will be chosen is as fine a time as any to […]
Another of my 20th century heroes speaks
“Of the four cardinal virtues – courage, temperance, justice, and prudence – it is the last, prudence, that the ancient philosophers traditionally placed at the moral apex. They did so because they understood, quite rightly, that without that practical, seemingly rather dull virtue, none of the others could be correctly applied. You have to know […]
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An honest man surveys “the wasteland”: “You know the difference between we who work in television and they who work in Hollywood? We’re willing to admit that 90 percent of what shows up on television isn’t worth looking at. They think everything they do is a masterpiece. That’s the main difference.”— Don Hewitt, Executive Producer […]
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”—William Hazlitt
Don’t Tax the Internet
Don’t Tax the Internet Columnist Thomas L. Friedman has written that the transformational changes being wrought by the Internet require a reconvening of the Founding Fathers because he believes we are due for as revolutionary a period as the period between 1776 and 1787. He further predicts that the states will lead the revolution as […]
Welcome Aboard!
Welcome Aboard the maiden voyage of The Texas Pilgrim, a personal odyssey of reflection, commentary, and seeking. Depending on how you might know me—professionally, personally, through civic, political, or social venues, or barely at all—this project may strike you differently. Believe me, I have given it plenty of thought and trust it will not evoke […]