Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
“What makes us exceptional — what makes us American — is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal …”
President Obama
Presidential Inauguration Speech — 2013
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”Napoleon the Pig
President of the FarmGeorge Orwell
Animal Farm
From Obama Inauguration Speech
“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our time.”
That sounds a great deal like this quote from Karl Marx I am familiar with,
“The point is not to understand the world, but to transform it.”
The above Marx quote is from Karl Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach.
I’m sure the similarities between the two are sheer coincidence and nothing more.