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Tuesday, Oct 30, 2018“For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.”
Pericles
Greek statesman, orator and general.
(495BC - 429BC)
Monday, Oct 29, 2018“Happiness is secured through virtue.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
Dominican Friar, Priest & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1225 - 1274)
Friday, Oct 26, 2018“If God cannot be part of public life, then the state itself plays God. There are many paths to total state control of life - fascism, totalitarianism, communism. In the United States, the path is labeled 'protection of individual rights.”
Francis Cardinal George, OMI
American priest, bishop and theologian.
(1937 - 2015)
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca aka Seneca the Younger
Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
(4 BC - 65 AD)
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
Rosa Parks
Activist in the American Civil Rights Movement.
(1913 - 2005)
Tuesday, Oct 23, 2018“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States.
(1884 - 1962)
Monday, Oct 22, 2018“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American physician, poet and polymath.
(1809 - 1894)
Friday, Oct 19, 2018“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.”
St. Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.”
F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher.
(1899 - 1992)
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018“The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.”
Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
United States Senator.
(1924 - 2014)
Tuesday, Oct 16, 2018“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Pericles
Greek statesman, orator and general.
(495BC - 429BC)
Tuesday, Oct 16, 2018“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Pericles
Greek statesman, orator and general.
(495BC - 429BC)
Monday, Oct 15, 2018“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
William A. Ward
American writer.
(1921 - 1994)
Friday, Oct 12, 2018“We have to move forward together into a future that is not at all secure except for our certitude that God's love is constant.”
Francis Cardinal George, OMI
American priest, bishop and theologian.
(1937 - 2015)
Thursday, Oct 11, 2018“The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.”
William O. Douglas
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(1898 - 1980)
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2018“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
Homer
Ancient legendary Greek author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(circa 800 BC)
Tuesday, Oct 09, 2018“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.”
Joseph J. Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher.
(1847 - 1911)
Monday, Oct 08, 2018“I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.”
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar
Legendary author, salesman, business consultant and motivational speaker who invested his life helping others get everything they wanted out of life.
(1926 - 2012)
Friday, Oct 05, 2018“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1737 - 1809)
Thursday, Oct 04, 2018“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States.
(1917 - 1963)
Wednesday, Oct 03, 2018“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”
Larry Bird
American professional basketball executive, former coach and player.
(1956 - present)
Tuesday, Oct 02, 2018“Opportunities seldom present themselves for the practice of great and heroic virtues; but each day presents us with a thousand occasions for practicing little virtues with a heroic spirit.”
Saint Francis de Sales
French Friar, Bishop and One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1567 - 1622)
Monday, Oct 01, 2018“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”
Warren Buffett
American investor and philanthropist.
(1930 - present)
