Quote(s) Of The Week - 8/5/19

“In medicine, just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done.” 

                Robert Weber, Wired Magazine, Rants and Raves, April 2019 – p 10.

"Perot wanted to be president because he actually thought he could fix the country. Whether or not he could have done it, he was sincere…For Perot, it really was about America first."

From an article in Newsweek by Gerald Posner, the author of Citizen Perot: His Life and Times (a 1996 biography of Ross Perot) in quoting the thoughts of a retired policeman who knew quite well. 

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Quote on the base of the Statue of Liberty – a monument designed by the sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, which was a gift from France to the United States.  She was named Liberté éclairant le monde: Liberty Enlightening the World and dedicated on October 25, 1886.  Let’s not forget what she stands for…