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Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
French diplomat, political scientist, and historian.
(1805 - 1859)
Monday, Jan 29, 2024“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
John Burroughs
American naturalist and nature essayist.
(1837 - 1921)
Friday, Jan 26, 2024“Christ made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve.”
Saint Agnes
Roman Martyr and Holy Virgin.
(c. 291 AD - c. 304 AD)
Thursday, Jan 25, 2024“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Jan 24, 2024“Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.”
Elizabeth Aston
English author.
(1948 - 2016)
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
Frédéric Bastiat
French economist and author.
(1801 - 1850)
Monday, Jan 22, 2024“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, rather, to use violence to get what they want.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Friday, Jan 19, 2024“And above all, be on your guard not to want to get anything done by force, because God has given free will to everyone and wants to force no one, but only proposes, invites and counsels.”
Saint Angela Merici
Italian religious educator and founder of the Company of Saint Ursula.
(1474 - 1540)
Thursday, Jan 18, 2024“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
26th President of the United States of America.
(1858 - 1919)
Tuesday, Jan 16, 2024“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright.
(1799 - 1850)
Monday, Jan 15, 2024“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister, and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Friday, Jan 12, 2024“We were created by God for great things, to love and be loved.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, Jan 11, 2024“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
26th President of the United States of America.
(1858 - 1919)
Wednesday, Jan 10, 2024“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.”
Gaius Musonius Rufus
Roman Stoic philosopher.
(1st century AD)
Tuesday, Jan 09, 2024“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
French statesman and military leader.
(1769 - 1821)
Monday, Jan 08, 2024“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.”
John Burroughs
American naturalist and nature essayist.
(1837 - 1921)
Friday, Jan 05, 2024“Kindness and truth, justice and peace have met; they have become incarnate in the child born of Mary in Bethlehem. That child is the Son of God; he is God appearing in history. His birth is a flowering of new life for all humanity.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - 2022)
Thursday, Jan 04, 2024“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Jan 03, 2024“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher and poet.
(1803 - 1882)
Tuesday, Jan 02, 2024“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel Laureate, theoretical physicist, and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)
