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Posted on 10/12/2009 8:37:36 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
[This is the follow-on to my previous post and must be read in context with it.]
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without color,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;
T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
The failure to articulate the connection between moral concerns and limited government has allowed the emergence of a sham approach to moral issues. On issues like abortion or the defense of the God-ordained natural family, leaders give lip-service or take isolated stands while actually implementing policies that preferentially employ and promote the spirit killing use of government power as the way to deal with our economic and social challenges. This is how the Huckabee/Palin fold (of the three-fold Republican political scenario discussed in my previous post) manifests the deficiency of substantive logic that so often makes the Bush league's version of a Republican conservative such a 'hollow man (or woman, as the case may be)'.
(Excerpt) Read more at loyaltoliberty.com ...
Amen! I do a monthly donation!
A line from: Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
Denis Diderot
A line from: Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
That’s such a good quote it’s worth seeing twice!
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I'd fight and die against nations ruled by manchildren like Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm mmmm mmmm.
Freedom can not be separated from morality. This isn’t the license versus freedom argument, its more basic than that.
Freedom is self-government. It requires two things at its base: it requires the capacity to govern oneself, and it requires the desire to govern oneself.
This is a moral quality, and it is a spiritual quality.
Not everyone can, and not everyone wants to. Those who can’t will force you to govern them. And those who won’t will likewise force you to govern them but they will struggle every day to put themselves in position to govern you. Rule by the ungovernable is the original sin that has to be broken for freedom to take root.
Only a sickly mind sees a Huckabee/Palin conspiracy.
I only posted it twice because I left out who stated it.
I have the rest and a pic of storming the Bastille. That is where this was said.
I wouldn’t call it a conspiracy. More like a woeful inadequacy to the critical tasks these times present us.
Okay, I see that now. Thanks.
Very interesting and thought-provoking post.
Thank you. I will try and get to that in the morning...
We truly need thousands of principled, unwavering patriots like him to step up NOW.
Here is the last time I posted the full quote with pic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319749/posts
see post #7
Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top
May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny
May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals
May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet
May they all be soldiers
May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders
Denis Diderot
Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
Thanks!
Placemark to read tomorrow. Plus the first one.
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