LIfe, freedom and lies

Catching up some more:

July 25: Today is Constitution Day in Puerto Rico.

"When people are free to do as they choose, they usually imitate each other." -- Eric Hoffer.



July 26: George Bernard Shaw was born July 26, 1856. He wrote:

"Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives."



Today: English author Hilaire Belloc (pictured above) was born on July 27, 1870. He wrote:

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Black-balled

African American poet Langston Hughes was born on this day in 1902. He wrote:

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why democracy means
Everybody but me.

Join the club

Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address on this day in 1863.

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." -- Oscar Wilde.

Today's Perverse Verse:

If you're so annoyingly cocky
To think that I and you are equals,
Then you must think that Jaws and Rocky
Are no better than their sequels.

Read about Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at farewells.blogspot.com.