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Thursday, Sep 30, 2021“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
Johanna "Hannah" Arendt
German-born American political theorist and historian.
(1906 - 1975)
Wednesday, Sep 29, 2021“We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.”
Saint Vincent de Paul
Patron saint of charitable societies. Spent two years in slavery after being taken captive by Barbary pirates.
(1581 - 1660)
Tuesday, Sep 28, 2021“Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
American author and commentator.
(1925 - 2008)
Monday, Sep 27, 2021“For me, success is not a public thing. It's a private thing. It's when you have fewer and fewer regrets.”
Toni Morrison
American novelist, essayist, book editor and college professor.
(1931 - 2019)
Friday, Sep 24, 2021“Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.”
Saint Charles Borromeo
Italian Priest, Bishop and Cardinal.
(1538 - 1584)
Thursday, Sep 23, 2021“By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.”
F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher.
(1899 - 1992)
Wednesday, Sep 22, 2021“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.”
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States of America.
(1872 - 1933)
Tuesday, Sep 21, 2021“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian and fierce critic of Communism, who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile for criticizing Joseph Stalin.
(1918 - 2008)
Monday, Sep 20, 2021“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
American author, professor and motivational speaker.
(1924 - 1998)
Friday, Sep 17, 2021“Three things are necessary to everyone: truth of faith which brings understanding, love of Christ which brings compassion, and endurance of hope which brings perseverance.”
Saint Bonaventure
Italian Friar, Bishop and One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1221 - 1274)
Thursday, Sep 16, 2021“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”
Alexander Hamilton
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1755 - 1804)
Wednesday, Sep 15, 2021“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
United States Army general.
(1934 - 2012)
Tuesday, Sep 14, 2021“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority.”
Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator and former slave.
(1856 - 1915)
Monday, Sep 13, 2021“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a GIFT. That's why it's called the present.”
Bil Keane
American cartoonist.
(1922 - 2011)
Friday, Sep 10, 2021“All you can do is try to live your best life from day to day and move forward with gratitude.”
Brian Clark
Canadian businessman and 9/11 survivor from floor 84 of the South Tower.
(1974 - present)
Thursday, Sep 09, 2021“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)
Wednesday, Sep 08, 2021“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright.
(1854 - 1900)
Tuesday, Sep 07, 2021“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
Willa Cather
Pulitzer Prize winning American author.
(1873 - 1947)
Friday, Sep 03, 2021“Man is debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Dominican Friar, Priest & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1225 - 1274)
Thursday, Sep 02, 2021“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher.
(1899 - 1992)
Wednesday, Sep 01, 2021“Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.”
Louis Auchincloss
American lawyer, novelist, historian and essayist.
(1917 - 2010)
