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On The President's Carpet: Fear itself

By Jonathan Simor

Four quotations from great Presidents, two (possibly three) of them, "martyred" in office, and one martyred civil rights leader who in a slightly different universe might have ended up a President, adorn the new carpet in the oval office (at least three of the quotes also appeared in his November 8, 2008 victory speech in Chicago). Bipartisan? Sure, but more importantly, great quotes all. I would take any one of them; and in the right spirit, anyone half clever in either the liberal or conservative camp could riff on them all to state their greatest convictions. According to Sheryl Stolberg blogging at the NYTimes the five quotes are:"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself? ? President Franklin D. Roosevelt?The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Towards Justice? ? Martin Luther King Jr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).