Lemuel K. Washburn Quotes
The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
Lemuel K. Washburn, 1846-1927, Unitarian Minister & Philosopher, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
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Kennan was then the Charge of the America Embassy in Moscow.
Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
Madison was right on most things, but got this one wrong. Of course he did not anticipate the era of mass communication which makes demagoguery in large areas possible.
On that date, a few days before the election the FBI Director publicly announced that he was reopening the Investigation into possible wrongdoing of Ms. Clinon's use of provate emails. He had earlier cleared her of all criminal wrongdoing and and he claimed that they had found a new computer that had some e-mails that they had not not yet examined for possible criminal activity. In addition WikiLeaks published on the Internet thousands of private e-mails that the Russians had hacked from her campaign chairman and her comittee. The two things started moving her trend down so that she only one the popular vote by almsot 3 million votes and she needed more to overcome the electoral collage gave to rural and small states. Ironically, the FBI went throught the contents of the computer and after the election announced that there was nothing there that incriminated Ms. Clinton, and there was no criminal activity found in all the hacked e-mails. And the FBI Director was chastized by the Republican Justice Department after Donald Trump took office for improperly making pubic investigation details before there were any findings. The FBI Director was subsequently fired but this and otehr reasons were given as the reason.
Questioning the wisdom of the then existing system of selecting major party presidential candidates by primary elections where even few party members vote.
Lemuel Kelley Washburn (1846–1927) was an American Freethought writer.
