“Hangman’s gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign and ride on its whirlwinds and direct the Storm. The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.”
Andrew Jackson, Regarding the resolution of the South Carolina Nullification Crisis, Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, 1 May 1833
Eddie says:
Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived–as on all planets–good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth’s darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch itself and begin–timidly at first–to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the sun. If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it.
Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces . . .
…I do not much like to take the tone of a moralist. But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, that for once I am breaking through my reserve. “Children,” I say plainly, “watch out for the baobabs!”
Antoine St Exupery…The Little Prince
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2nd October 2012 at 12:20 pm
Administrator says:
“I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.”
Homer Simpson
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2nd October 2012 at 2:46 pm
Administrator says:
“Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
Dorothy Day
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2nd October 2012 at 4:53 pm