No More Important Lesson to Learn

"A Christian should follow his occupation with contentment. Is your business here clogged with any difficulties and inconveniences? Contentment under those difficulties is no little part of your homage to that King who hath placed you where you are by His call." Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

Ole Ben Got It Right!

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.” —Benjamin Franklin

Character Matters

I have heard all my adult life that a man or woman's "private life' does not matter when it comes to running for political office. The attitude seems to be "what happens in Vega...errrr, (my private life)stays there." While it may, we have "sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind" because we have ignored the counsel of men like Samuel Adams.

Perry

“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honor of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.” —Samuel Adams