LETTER: Other 'Presidential Words of Wisdom'

To the Editor:

Those Norfolk folks were very intelligent [Referencing Sunday's `Presidential Words of Wisdom']. But there are others that I find equally as important., and which, on this Presidents' Day, think of our current situation. ________________________________________

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves." (Abraham Lincoln, Republican)

President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official ... It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." (President Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919) (Republican)

The measure of our progress is not what whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) (Franklin D. Roosevelt) (Democrat”

Other quotations I think are relevant to the Lone Ranger and Tonto, i.e., Donald Trump and and Elon Musket)

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

‘I despise, therefore I am.”

George Will’s paraphrase of Descartes and speaking of Donald Trump (Republican)

Donald Trump is someone whose “persistence is beyond the call of talent.” (George Will)

--  Sam Oppenheim

Franklin MA