Denair, CA…We originally posted this for Father’s in 2006. My father would turn 103 this year if he were here today. This poem was my father’s favorite. This one is dedicated to my Father…Jay S. Hamilton. Dad was born in November of 1916 and died in May of 1991. His life saw deep tragedy but […]
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston Churchill
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“The left is back, and it’s the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.” Hugo Chavez
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
“Little Strokes,Fell great Oaks.” Ben Franklin
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Teddy Roosevelt
“Approve not of him who commends all you say” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Arnold, CA…”It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who […]
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” Benjamin Franklin
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia, PA…”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 of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very […]
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James 1842 – 1910
“The King’s cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, ’tis made of the peoples milk.” Poor Richard’s Almanac 1735
“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how […]
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” John Wooden 1910 – 2010
“Politics pretty quiet over the weekend. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise “what they would do if they got in.” But the Republicans have to promise “what they would do” and then explain why they haven’t already “done it.” Will Rogers in 1932
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always […]
“Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.” William Randolph Hearst April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.” The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967
“I don’t do sneaky things. I don’t leak. I don’t do weasel moves.” Former FBI Director James Comey
“Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.” Barbara Bush
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” Benjamin Franklin
“It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906 – 1945
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” Martin […]
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell
