Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"It takes less time to do a thing right,
than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

by:	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
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Categories:	Integrity, Honesty, Apathy
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That has been my experience. -- Mike, Norwalk
-- jim k, Austin
" In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! " One of my favorite poets. -- Ronw13, Yachats Or
Someone said that if you can't find the time to do something right the first time, how can you find the time to do it over. -- jim k, Austin
Measure twice, cut once. Keep it plumb and square says the old builder. As with our " Ship of State " We know what Master laid thy keel. -- Ronw13, Yachats Or
It usually takes few words to tell the truth. You can bet that if the President receives a bill of 2000 pages he doesn't know what is inside it -- but you can damn well bet the excuses for these projects are voluminous. Obamacare was a tax, would be executed like a tax, and would generate revenue for the government like a tax. But in order to make it look like something else, it became an unreadable behemoth of legal jargon intended to confuse all the way to the Supreme Court. -- E Archer, NYC
-- jim k, Austin