Philadelphia, PA…Mr. President: I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present, but Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it: For having lived long, I have experienced many Instances of being oblig’d, by better Information or fuller Consideration, to change Opinions even on important Subjects, which I once […]
Hershey, PA…”One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.” Milton S. Hershey September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945
“You may sometimes be much in the wrong, in owning your being in the right.” Poor Richard’s Almanack 1754, Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“Serving God is Doing Good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen.” Poor Richard Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.” Bret Harte August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902
“Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.” Poor Richard Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” Cecil B. DeMille August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959
“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.” ~ Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“The World is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet every one has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the Affairs of his neighbor.” ~ Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“If evils come not, then our fears are vain: And if they do, Fear but augments the pain.” ~ Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“Be always asham’d to catch thy self idle.” ~ Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfeld July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021
“Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.” ― John Jay, 1745 – 1829, 1st Chief Justice of the United States
“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is forbidden because it’s hurtful. Nor is a Duty beneficial because it is commanded, but it is commanded, because it’s beneficial.” ~ Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.” Adam Smith 5 June, 1723 – 17 July 1790
Amsterdam, Netherlands…Anne Frank’s short life proved that every life, even brief ones can leave a lasting impact on the world. If Anne had lived she would be 92 on her birthday today. Her “The Diary of a Young Girl” gives timeless lessons on the inalienable rights that all are born with and all instinctively know. […]
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” Benjamin Franklin January 6 – April 17, 1790
“The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.” – Pope John Paul II, 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005
Gettysburg, PA…While it was delivered 5 years before our country officially started celebrated Decoration Day which became Memorial Day. The Gettysburg Address remains one of the most eloquent of tributes to those who gave their all that we might be free. The Images Above Are of The “Bliss Copy” of His Address and Kept in […]
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979
“The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.” ~ Roger Williams 1603 – 1683 Founder of Rhode Island
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.” ~ Alexander Pope 21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” ~ Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
“Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~ Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” ~ Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
“I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mothers day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. She is entitled to it.” ~ Ann Reeves Jarvis Mother of Anna Maria Jarvis May 1, 1864 – November 24, 1948 who founded Mother’s Day!
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry S. Truman May […]
“One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.” Gary Cooper May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’ Sigismund Schlomo Freud 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939
