We offer nothing more than the opinions of an ordinary man.\u00a0 We all have different experiences and often view the same events from quite different perspectives.\u00a0 The best we can do is to explain the source of information used to develop these opinions, so that readers can determine, for themselves, whether these opinions are reasonably formed.<\/p>\n
Terry McNeil<\/p>\n
Folsom, CA<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.<\/p>\n
Thomas Jefferson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Letter to William Roscoe [December 27, 1820]<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhile the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.\u201d<\/p>\n Abraham Lincoln\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.\u00a0 It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;\u00a0 you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can\u2019t fool all of the people all of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n Abraham Lincoln\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To a caller at the White House.\u00a0 From Alexander K. McClure, Lincoln\u2019s Yarns and Stories [1904]<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right \u2026 and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conducts of their rulers.\u201d<\/p>\n John Adams\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law [1765]<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFacts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n John Adams\u00a0\u00a0 Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials [December 1770]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We offer nothing more than the opinions of an ordinary man.\u00a0 We all have different experiences and often view the same events from quite different perspectives.\u00a0 The best we can do is to explain the source of information used to … Continue reading