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To: loveliberty2

And do people really consider Hillary to be some role model for girls today???

To paraphrase Michelle Obama, thanks to Hillary, Michelle knows her daughters know a woman can become president.

do we want our daughters to be like Hillary in all ways, to stay in a ridiculous marriage, just to attain political power because you married a powerful man??

Do we want our daughters to emulate a woman who puts up with repeated and sometimes public infidelity, sacrificing all sense of self worth and personal happiness, just to run for president someday?? Is that how Hillary is a role model???


26 posted on 07/31/2016 11:48:13 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That great Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, in his Letter to Peter Carr, left great advice for someone like Hillary:

“When your mind shall be well improved with science, nothing will be necessary to place you in the highest points of view, but to pursue the interests of your country, the interests of your friends, and your own interests also, with the purest integrity, the most chaste honor.

“The defect of these virtues can never be made up by all the other acquirements of body and mind. Make these then your first object.

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose, that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

“Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises; being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual. From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.

“If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circumstances, out of which you are at a loss how to extricate yourself, do what is right, and be assured that that will extricate you the best out of the worst situations.

“Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth, in the easiest manner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one, will untie itself before you. Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed.

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.” - (Excerpted from Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to young Peter Carr, August 19, 1785)”


35 posted on 07/31/2016 12:02:53 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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