REREADING PAST PRESIDENTS' THOUGHTS

Maybe it's time for us to review some thoughts of presidents which have guided the people in one way or the other as developments in politics have gone on. By rereading them maybe those responsible for shutting down the US government will be able to rethink what they have done to others. As well, those in the Philippine government responsible for bringing our country to its sorry economic state could feel remorse, return the money and promise, swear while kneeling not to do it again. - a Christian punishment.)

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln 
(Who in the government is doing this? In our country, those destroying our faith in good governance are the officials who are being bribed with pork and the briber too)

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
(Do we need to overthrow those who pervert the Constitution? Let them have their day in court. So we may know the kind legal defenses they have and respond to them as intelligently as we can. In a sense we are honing our skills in democratic exercise.)

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
(Yes, they tried fooling us that pork is good. Now we know -- it brings out the worst in people -- the worst which is to buy people's votes.)

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln (Hallelujiah! Sana! Sana! Sana!)

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln 
(Our Congress is not really divided because most have had their pork. They are only divided -- on whether to share the loot or not.)

WE SHOULD NEGOTIATE ON THE MALAMPAYA FUNDS THIS WAY: BRING DOWN FUEL OIL PRICES BY 50%. THAT IS WHAT MALAMPAYA IS FOR -- TO HELP THE PEOPLE.!

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt 
(That sounds like the TP.)

Andrew Jackson
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
(May there be brave men and women who will accept their error.


Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Nelson Mandela Speech, May 1994
Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela