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I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln’s position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to one man, the servant of the people, instead of to the people themselves. In practice they adopt the fetishism of all believers in absolutism; for every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President,” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart Royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman can take such an attitude.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

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A quotation from Herbert Hoover

   The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
   Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
   Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

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