Showing posts with label Dwight D. Eisenhower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dwight D. Eisenhower. Show all posts

Saturday, December 11, 2021

France (The Real Deal In Three Quotes)

"What I gained in France was to be better satisfied with my own country." 

– Samuel Johnson 

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country." 

– Mark Twain 

"A helpless, hopeless mass of protoplasm." 

– President Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Then Our New Religion Is Intelligence

"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious belief - and I don’t care what it is."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, who definitely wasn't planning on my flavor of atheistic patriotism - while leaving the door open for the evils of NewAge - which may or may not concern the folks at Commonweal.