May 7, 2010

What he said

On the heels of the recently-declared-unconstitutional National Day of Prayer, I offer up this quote from former U.S. House Speaker Robert Winthrop circa 1850:

"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet."

The way things seem to be going, the bayonet (figuratively speaking, of course) seems to be gaining the upper hand.


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