[johnbryanpeters]

"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection."

 

[johnbryanpeters]

"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism."

 

[johnbryanpeters]

"To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue which the public exigencies may at any time dictate."

 

[johnbryanpeters]

"The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave."

 

[valve bouncer]

JBP, did Abraham Lincoln really have a squeaky voice?
(I know BTW)

 

[stevew]

JBP, did Abraham Lincoln really have a squeaky voice?
(I know BTW)

I thought this was graffiti he threw up in the time of Cesar?