“The spirit of party serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.” ~ George Washington
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how”.” ― Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for […]
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men (and women) will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the […]
Washington, DC…”I believe that Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining “city on a hill,” as were those long ago settlers … These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or […]
Arnold, CA…With 2020 being well, 2020 with COVID, PSPS Outages, Fires and maybe even a bit of political angst we thought you might be able to use more than one quote today. These are from Colonel Sanders. Who really didn’t get started until he was almost 70 and worked pretty much until they carted him […]
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.” ~ Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette 6 September 1757 – 20 […]
“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.” ~ Paul Harvey Aurandt, September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009
“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell
“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
Philadelphia, PA…“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.” Poor Richard’s Almanack 1738
Arnold, CA…2020 will be a year many of us would like to forget. History tells us that when things look darkest the tide may have already turned in our favor. A new day starts before we see the light. Growing up I always loved this poem from Walter Wintle. Not much is definitively known about […]
“When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary.” If there is some point you haven’t thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.” ~ Warren Buffett
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.” ~ Winston Churchill
“If you actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” ~ Winston Churchill
“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis
Washington, DC…In 1796 President George Washington saw the dangers that party politics could damage the entire system. “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power […]
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“They who have nothing to be troubled at, will be troubled at nothing.” ~ Poor Richard (AKA, Ben Franklin)
“Sloth, like Rust, consumes faster than Labour wears, while the used Key is always bright.” ~ Poor Richard (AKA, Ben Franklin)
“One good Husband is worth two good Wives; for the scarcer things are the more they’re valued.” ~ Poor Richard
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” ― Benjamin Franklin
