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Thursday, Jul 30, 2020“[We] live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
Walker Percy, Obl. S.B.
American writer and Benedictine oblate.
(1916 - 1990)
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2020“The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve.”
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States of America.
(1872 - 1933)
Tuesday, Jul 28, 2020“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent.”
Louis D. Brandeis
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1856 - 1941)
Monday, Jul 27, 2020“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca aka Seneca the Younger
Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
(4 BC - 65 AD)
Friday, Jul 24, 2020“When people think they possess the secret of a perfect social organization which makes evil impossible, they also think that they can use any means, including violence and deceit, in order to bring that organization into being. Politics then becomes a 'secular religion' which operates under the illusion of creating paradise in this world. But no political society...can ever be confused with the Kingdom of God.”
Saint John Paul II
Polish Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Jul 23, 2020“The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.”
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman.
(1847 - 1931)
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2020“He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish knight, hermit, priest and theologian. Founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
(1491 - 1556)
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2020“Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist.
(1868 - 1963)
Monday, Jul 20, 2020“Any jackass can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”
Sam Rayburn
American congressman & Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
(1882 - 1961)
Friday, Jul 17, 2020“...we need to remind people of the truths they've forgotten, the truths on which our society is founded.”
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFMCap
Native American priest and Capuchin Franciscan friar.
(1944 - present)
Thursday, Jul 16, 2020“"It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been."”
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist and columnist.
(1901 - 1967)
Thursday, Jul 16, 2020“"It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been."”
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist and columnist.
(1901 - 1967)
Wednesday, Jul 15, 2020“...the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.”
Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize Winning Economist.
(1912 - 2006)
Tuesday, Jul 14, 2020“Socialism is, in its essence, an attack...upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II & first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
(1874 - 1965)
Monday, Jul 13, 2020“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author.
(1805 - 1875)
Friday, Jul 10, 2020“Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced...more true than the truth itself.”
Saint Irenaeus of Lyon
Greek bishop, author and early Church Father.
(130 AD - 202 AD)
Thursday, Jul 09, 2020“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric.
(1667 - 1745)
Wednesday, Jul 08, 2020“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
Coretta Scott King
American author, activist and civil rights leader.
(1927 - 2006)
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2020“Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.”
James Weldon Johnson
American writer and civil rights activist.
(1871 - 1938)
Monday, Jul 06, 2020“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
Wendell L. Willkie
American lawyer, corporate executive, activist and statesman.
(1892 - 1944)
Friday, Jul 03, 2020“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1732 - 1808)
Thursday, Jul 02, 2020“Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.”
Christopher Dawson
British scholar, historian and author.
(1889 - 1970)
Wednesday, Jul 01, 2020“The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.”
Henry Hazlitt
American journalist.
(1894 - 1993)
