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Wednesday, Jun 30, 2021“There is surely no reason for Western civilization to have guilt trips laid on it by champions of cultures based on despotism, superstition, tribalism, and fanaticism. What distinguishes us from the rest of the world are those liberating ideas of individual liberty, political democracy, rule of law, human rights, and cultural freedom. These are European ideas, not Asian, nor African, nor Middle Eastern ideas, except by adoption.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
American historian and social critic.
(1917 - 2007)
Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”
P.D. James, OBE
English novelist and politician.
(1920 - 2014)
Monday, Jun 28, 2021“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher and poet.
(1803 - 1882)
Friday, Jun 25, 2021“You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.”
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1873 - 1897)
Thursday, Jun 24, 2021“The Democratic principle...would have no man's benefit achieved at the expense of his neighbors...This one single rule, rationally construed and applied, is enough to form the starting point of all that is necessary in government; to make no more laws than those useful for preventing a man or body of men from infringing on the rights of other men.”
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist, and journalist.
(1819 - 1892)
Wednesday, Jun 23, 2021“A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.”
Saint Dominic
Spanish priest & Founder of the Dominican Order.
(1170 - 1221)
Tuesday, Jun 22, 2021“Freedom is the opportunity to do good.”
Cardinal Lubomyr Husar
Ukrainian Priest, Bishop and Cardinal.
(1933 - 2017)
Monday, Jun 21, 2021“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Friday, Jun 18, 2021“At the end of our life we shall be judged by charity.”
Saint John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, poet & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1542 - 1591)
Thursday, Jun 17, 2021“We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell...This delusion of the possibility of earthly perfection lies behind most socialistic and totalitarian schemes.”
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, historian, and social critic.
(1918 - 1994)
Wednesday, Jun 16, 2021“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”
Matthew Arnold
English poet, writer and cultural critic.
(1822 - 1888)
Tuesday, Jun 15, 2021“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.”
Auberon Herbert
British writer, theorist and philosopher.
(1838 - 1906)
Monday, Jun 14, 2021“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet.
(1728 - 1774)
Friday, Jun 11, 2021“Do not be anxious: go straight on, forgetful of self, letting the spirit of God act instead of your own.”
Saint Julie Billiart
Foundress and first superior-general of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
(1751 - 1816)
Thursday, Jun 10, 2021“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian historian, logician and sociologist.
(1881 - 1973)
Wednesday, Jun 09, 2021“Jesus does not demand great action from us but simply surrender and gratitude.”
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1873 - 1897)
Tuesday, Jun 08, 2021“Time waits for no man. Life goes by, and it goes by quick. Don't waste your years. Live them.”
John Gretton "Jocko" Willink
American author, podcaster and retired Navy SEAL.
(1971 - present)
Monday, Jun 07, 2021“The more one meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be one's world and the world at large.”
Confucius
Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher.
(551 BC - 479 BC)
Friday, Jun 04, 2021“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Jun 03, 2021“I have had lots of troubles in my life, most of which never happened.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
American author and humorist better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
(1835 - 1910)
Wednesday, Jun 02, 2021“The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation - no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian.”
Charles Krauthammer
Columnist and political commentator.
(1950 - 2018)
Tuesday, Jun 01, 2021“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
George S. Patton Jr.
World War II general.
(1885 - 1945)
