Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Quote of the Day, again

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
- Robert E. Lee

I'd like to think that his sort still walks the earth, but most of the time, I don't.

2 comments:

ASM826 said...

"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair

"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things."
-Edward Kennedy

"I'm quite certain that there were a handful of instances [with several other women] wherein I crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed as a married man but never crossed the ultimate line."
- S.C. Gov. -Mark Sanford 6/30/2009

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.” - Eliot Spitzer in March, 2008

This sad commentary could just go on and on. We get the government we elect.

Oh, and by the way, the CAPTCHA is "stings".

Bob said...

I sure would like a dollar for everyone who's named their son after Lee...

ironically, the word verification is "sonful."