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Thursday, Nov 21, 2024“You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.”
Patrick Henry
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1736 - 1799)
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
American author and humorist better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
(1835 - 1910)
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024“History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.”
General Douglas MacArthur
American five-star general and Medal of Honor recipient.
(1880 - 1964)
Monday, Nov 18, 2024“Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”
William Arthur Ward
American writer and educator.
(1921 - 1994)
Thursday, Nov 14, 2024“It's better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2024“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin
English social thinker and philanthropist.
(1819 - 1900)
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024“A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.”
James Monroe
One of the Founding Fathers & Fifth President of the United States of America.
(1758 - 1831)
Monday, Nov 11, 2024“Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude.”
Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States.
(1884 - 1972)
Friday, Nov 08, 2024“We were made for good works to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.”
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
Bishop, theologian & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(329AD - 390AD)
Thursday, Nov 07, 2024“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal... It is for us the living...to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. The Gettysburg Address - November 19, 1863”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Nov 06, 2024“Our children and grandchildren are paying the price of abandoning a shared moral code: divided societies, dysfunctional politics, high rates of drug abuse and suicide, increasingly unequal economies, a loss of respect for truth and the protocols of reasoning together, and the many other incivilities of contemporary life.”
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author.
(1948 - 2020)
Tuesday, Nov 05, 2024“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”
Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)
Monday, Nov 04, 2024“Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans.”
Will Rogers
American cowboy, humorist, social commentator aka Oklahoma's Favorite Son.
(1879 - 1935)
Friday, Nov 01, 2024“Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - 2022)
