Political Quips and Witticisms
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Published July 19, 2019
Updated June 15, 2022 |
Definition of Political Witticism: See Mark Twain or former Texas Governor, Ann Richards, for a clever, witty, and often biting or ironic remark. Synonyms within the context of this page include: wise crack, one-liner, maxim, saying, proverb or adage.
Political Quips and Witticisms
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"I believe that the miracle of modern, instant communication--social media--has made it increasingly difficult to escape the vulgarian."
Peter E. Greulich, June 15, 2022
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I adapted this from a quote of J. Kenfield Morley from 1937. He made an observation about "modern travel" that seemed to apply to social media and how it is abused.
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"Never let the facts interfere with a good story designed to expose a great truth.
"In the telling, how easy it is to make an inch a mile, a breeze a hurricane, or a light episode a tall tale: All to prepare a person's heart to receive a great truth through lips that smile unhesitatingly and ears that are willingly to hear." Peter E. Greulich, February 23, 2022
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In good story telling, sometimes a breeze becomes a hurricane!
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I have often wondered how to explain Abraham Lincoln's greatest humorous stories which, while seemingly rarely based on facts, always exposed great truths. Then I read a passage in "The One-Eyed Poacher of Privilege" by Edmund Ware Smith. I modified it for this insight into great storytelling that is almost always a stretch of the imagination.
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"Proficiency in listening encourages and electrifies the Freedom of Speech."
"Freedom of Speech is most threatened by those who fail to listen." "Woodrow Wilson wrote in The New Freedom that 'A nation is as great, and only as great as her rank and file.' I have to wonder sometimes how 'rank' we can get with each other on social media before we collapse as a society." Peter E. Greulich, July 17, 2019
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"A free press is quite different from a press for free. The former emancipates a society through its objectivity and well-researched facts, and the latter oppresses a society with its subjectivity and emotional opinions."
Peter E. Greulich, July 24, 2019
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"Has our human capacity for forgiveness kept pace with the Internet's growing passion for condemnation?"
Peter E. Greulich, January 21, 2020
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"Individualism in thinking, cooperation in doing."
Christy Borth,True Steel: The Story of George M. Verity
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The great malady of public life is cowardice.
Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life, if my observation is to be trusted, come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody. God knows why they should be: it is generally shadows they are afraid of. Woodrow Wilson, American Chronicle
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