Old Fogey's Quotes for Tuesday

"It does not take audacity to second-guess Bush. It takes prudence."
Richard Cohen in WaPo editorial regarding the minority opinion in the military tribunal SCOTUS decision that held the other six justices were audacious in trying to second-guess the president
Judicial Audacity, Well-Founded

''Every governor and every senator wakes up each morning and hums 'Hail to the Chief' while getting ready for work."
Republican consultant Rich Galen, on the large number of potential candidates for the presidency in 2008
All Pols Humming 'Hail to the Chief'

"America is a vastly different country from the one the founders knew. It has cars, computers and good teeth; it has no slaves."
Richard Brookhiser, the author of "What Would the Founders Do: Our Questions, Their Answers."
WWFFD?

"We ought to do something. Instead, we keep worrying about the vision of a bunch of sexist, slave-owning 18th century white men in wigs and breeches. Even in the 18th century, the founding fathers were not the most enlightened thinkers available. They were the ones whose ideas prevailed."
Mark Kurlansky, author of "The Big Oyster: History On a Half Shell."
WWFFD? Who cares?

"Throwing away a flag is very, very bad. It's just as bad as burning it, which, I believe, brings 30 years of bad luck to your country, leading it to repeat the same mistakes. Like sending troops abroad to fight in open-ended civil wars."
Joel Stein in LATimes editorial
Joel Stein: Eek! A flag on my lawn

"To say now that America was right, and England wrong, is exceedingly easy. Everybody can say it. . . . But there was a time when, to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried men's souls. They who did so were accounted in their day, plotters of mischief, agitators and rebels, dangerous men. To side with the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, with the oppressed against the oppressor! here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day."!
Frederick Douglass, in his 1852 address often published under the title: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
A Dissident's Holiday
[Blogger added emphasis and says "Amen!"]