“O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution is that it was not. It was not written for a time and place but for a species of being. It is not a political document but a psychological one. It will remain relevant so long… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“The Panic of 1819 sounded a wakeup call to some that the founders had been right after all in separating State and Commerce. Having experienced both state religion and state mercantilism under the British, the founders recognized the importance of separating the three power centers of Commerce, Church, and State. Commerce or Church, combined with State, produced both corruption and… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in 1914. For political reasons it could not be called that so it was named the Federal Reserve. Proving the wisdom of the founding generation and several thereafter, the era of central banking in America corresponds almost perfectly with… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“There are some 170 languages in the Philippines, almost all part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. I would assume most of… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and government have a symbiotic relationship that is often mediated by war. Central banking gives government a way to tap the productive power of the private sector and borrow from the future without the need to rely… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“And of all those English words, the most dominant, the most powerful, the most amazing has to be... Okay. As a language person, with… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that determine its… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only the facts… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Beyond a limited use of good ole vocab and grammar texts to give the students a base, textbooks of any kind just don’t have… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“So exalted was the idea of hegemony over self that every gentleman fell short. But the ideal itself was pursued for many generations. At… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
![“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that determine its meaning (“did not want to let [someone] go”). Only the first piece is clearly part of an actual independent word, but all five…” quote by Mark David Ledbetter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ef/mark-david-ledbetter-34449_quote_japanese-verbs-for-example-are-agglutina_2021975.jpg)
