As a member of the National Speakers Association, I was pleased to make a personal acquaintance with Charlie “Tremendous” Jones at one of our meetings. He was a large speaking presence. During his presentation he actually picked on me!
Charlie has written several quote books as he has come up with many of his own pithy sayings. This one about politics made me laugh: “Politics defined: poly is a Greek word meaning ‘many’ and tics are little bloodsuckers.”
Johann Von Goethe, a German writer (I studied him as I majored in German in college) described it thus: “In politics as on the sick bed people toss from one side to the other, thinking they will be more comfortable.”
My wife has been asking me what I want to do now that I’m retired. The other night I woke up at about 2 or 2:30 with a thought on my mind. It seemed important to me at that time in my groggy condition. So what did I do? I got out of bed, went into my office, found a scrap of paper and a pencil and wrote down my thought.
I always think it’s interesting that George Washington solemnly stated that it would be unwise to have political parties. He thought we should all be Americans and want what’s best for America. Little did he know that Americans disagreed on that score more than on the weather.
It’s interesting how much emphasis and importance all of the Founders put in the idea of Freedom and Liberty. They even warned us to take good care of the things they left for us.
One thing about Benjamin Franklin is that he finished much better than he had started out. If you’ve read his Autobiography, which I hope by now you have, you know that Ben left his family, his brother’s printing business, and his city of Boston, at the early age of 17. And that with only a few pennies to his name.
Some of the Democrats are complaining that too many in America get ahead just because of luck. Therefore, the abundance they receive should be subject to division around the citizenry. The lucky didn’t really deserve it. The unlucky should take part in the good luck by forcing the government to take such lucky proceeds and dividing them up among the less fortunate. Wow, how do they come to that conclusion?
I used to love to read the newspaper. The daily, home delivery newspaper.I especially liked the comic section. Now my grandkids ask “what’s a newspaper?”
George Washington, in his First Inaugural Address reminded us, as citizens of America, and as voters: