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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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11. I'm not sure.

Reply to MadameButterfly (Reply #10)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:20 PM

Aug 29

I often read quotes from the famous, the infamous and the Founders.

Also from TP...truer words:
"Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions."

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"If ever... [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 29 OP

Yeah, we need them all right Oeditpus Rex Aug 29 #1

You are right! ReRe Aug 29 #4

great men but also slave owners MadameButterfly Aug 29 #5

Yeah ReRe Aug 29 #7

Yes. We have to judge people in the context of their times MadameButterfly Aug 29 #8

And they are us. Joinfortmill Aug 29 #2

Terrifying isn't it? jfz9580m Aug 29 #3

These are the times that try men's souls MadameButterfly Aug 29 #6

From the same guy: discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 29 #9

Those are good ones that I didn't know MadameButterfly Aug 29 #10

I'm not sure. discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 29 #11