TimeOut

On time this time around ........ 'Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.' - Thomas Paine 'The moment we no longer have a free press anything ...  

there is a reason I placed the quote first and accompanied the post with Thomas Pain's portrait . Cheers, Filip

" In everyday life, if people intend to reach a true assessment of someone, to decide whether he is bad or good, they do not base the investigation on those periods of his life when he was untroubled by external circumstances; they look at how he behaved ... 

of which some of my previously posted quotes are variants . Of course, freedom of being without restraint by reason and goodwill is a freefall slope to total anarchy. Cheers, Filip

That one is particularly interesting when you apply it to imparting judgement onto people's actions . Cheers, Filip