Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Washington, DC…~ Sir Winston Churchill 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965. A Bit of Wisdom from Winston Churchill on Winston Churchill Day. On April 9, 1963, Winston Churchill was made the first honorary citizen of the United States. Celebrated today as Winston Churchill Day, April 9 “Victory at all costs, victory in spite of […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Pittsburg, PA…Fred McFeely Rogers March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003. Mister Rogers, Presbyterian minister. Host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001. “I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help […]
Blantyre, Scotland…David Livingstone 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873. Scottish Physician, Congregationalist, Pioneer Christian Missionary “If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.” “I determined never to stop until […]
Los Angeles, CA…Wyatt Earp March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929. American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, Tombstone & Alaska. “The most important lesson I learned…was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live […]
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland…March 17, St. Patrick’s Day is traditionally recognized as the day of his death. He was a fifth century missionary, bishop & Patron Saint of Ireland. “Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.” “I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least […]
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935. Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. “Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.” “It seems to […]
Notre Dame, IN…Knute Kenneth Rockne March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931. Football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. “The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.” “We count on winning. And if we […]
Beverly Hills, CA…Dinah Shore, February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994. “The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.” “Trouble is part of your life – if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person […]
Big Sur, CA…Linus Carl Pauling February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994. “By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.” “Do not let […]
Harriman, NY….Edward Henry Harriman, February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909. American financier and railroad executive. “Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.” “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”
Maranello, Italy…Enzo Ferrari, 20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988. Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, founder Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team & Ferrari automobile marque. “I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I […]
Mount Vernon, VA…George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799. The first president of the United States and founding father of our country. “It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” “Be courteous to all, but intimate with […]
New York, NY…American steel magnate Charles Michael Schwab, February 18, 1862 – September 18, 1939. “A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and […]
Los Angeles, CA…Edgar John Bergen, February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978. Ventriloquist, Comedian, Actor, Vaudevillian & Radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. “Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. […]
Chicago, IL…Cyrus McCormick, February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884 was an American inventor and founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, later to become the International Harvester Company. Through his and other inventions allowed the American Farmer to feed the world. “Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through […]
Los Angeles, CA…Entertainer Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974. “My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.” “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and […]
Washington, DC…A Bit of Wisdom from our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln for Presidents Day. Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our […]
New York, NY…Thomas Paine February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809. Thomas Paine was born on this day in 1737 in Thetford, England. His most impactful work was the tract Common Sense. In many ways it codified the grievances the Colonies had with the Crown and many historians credit it as the match that lit […]
New York, NY…William Tecumseh Sherman February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891. American Soldier & General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). “If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.” “Grant stood by me when I was crazy, […]
Moline, IL…A Bit of Wisdom from John Deere the inventor of first commercially successful steel plough. John Deere February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886 “I cut the teeth off the mill-saw with a hand-chisel. I cut a pattern out of paper for the moldboard and share. I laid the pattern on the saw and […]
New York, NY…George Herman “Babe” Ruth, February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948. Homerun King, “The Bambino” & “The Sultan of Swat”. “I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too […]
Chicago, IL…A Bit of Wisdom from Dwight L. Moody. Dwight L. Moody February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899 “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.” “We can […]
New York, NY…Horace Greeley, February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872. American newspaper editor, publisher of New-York Tribune. “Our country right or wrong is an evil motto – what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.” “It […]
Altadena, CA…Pearl Zane Grey, January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939. American author of popular adventure novels and stories that glorified the West. “Love of man for woman – love of woman for man. That’s the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.” “I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement […]
