Thoughts on the Slippery Slope

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Dillon Pyron - 17 Dec 2004 15:16 GMT

"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a
second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the
society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no
sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." --Thomas Jefferson

Signature

dillon

"When the French are against it, you know we can't
be far wrong." - Adm. Bobbie Ray Inman

Reply to this Message

Popeye NCAT3 - 17 Dec 2004 15:22 GMT

>From: Dillon Pyron dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com
>Date: 12/17/2004 10:16 AM Eastern Standard Time
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no
>sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." --Thomas Jefferson

I'd say we crossed that mark somewhere back in the early 1800's...

Popeye
The only working atomic bomb platforms the
Japanese ever had were delivered via airmail.

Reply to this Message

Scott - 17 Dec 2004 15:27 GMT

> "A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a
> second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the
> society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no
> sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." --Thomas Jefferson

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,
peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft
living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Reply to this Message