“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
“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must […]
“In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God. ~ Dr. Benjamin Spock May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998
“Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself.” Poor Richard’s Almanac 1735
“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.” Ulysses S. Grant April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” Lucille Ball August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” King Solomon Reined from 970 to 931BC.
“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” ~ James Buchanan April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868
“To be is to do.” Immanuel Kant 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804
“Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show […]
“I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.” John Paul Stevens April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.” ~ Clarence Darrow April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938
“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who… looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space… on the infinite highway of the air.” Wilbur Wright April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912
Washington, DC…President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865. A few pearls of his wisdom that we can all use today. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that […]
