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Thursday, May 30, 2019“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future. ”
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.
(1928 - 2016)
Wednesday, May 29, 2019“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
American author and humorist better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
(1835 - 1910)
Tuesday, May 28, 2019“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States of America.
(1882 - 1945)
Friday, May 24, 2019“"Earthly honors count for nothing and money and wealth count even less and are extremely dangerous, but holiness and the effort to make others holy is the height of human happiness; this is of the greatest importance for our present life and the life to come."”
Saint John XXIII
Bishop of Rome & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1881 - 1963)
Thursday, May 23, 2019“Never make predictions, especially about the future.”
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
American Baseball Hall of Fame championship player and manager.
(1890 - 1975)
Wednesday, May 22, 2019“Redistribution of wealth slows moral development and creates evils worse than capitalism.”
Reverend Arthur Powell Davies
American minister, author and liberal activist.
(1902 - 1957)
Tuesday, May 21, 2019“The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.”
St. Vincent de Paul
Patron saint of charitable societies. Spent two years in slavery after being taken captive by Barbary pirates.
(1581 - 1660)
Monday, May 20, 2019“By yourself you will do nothing, but if you have God as the center of all your action, then you will reach the goal.”
Blessed Pier Giorgio
Italian social activist & member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic.
(1901 - 1925)
Friday, May 17, 2019“To be a servant of Christ is to be truly free.”
St. Agatha
Early Christian Virgin & Martyr.
(231 AD - 251 AD)
Thursday, May 16, 2019“"If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true." ”
John Keats
English poet.
(1795 - 1821)
Wednesday, May 15, 2019“The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.”
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian economist, historian and sociologist.
(1881 - 1973)
Tuesday, May 14, 2019“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ”
Billy Graham
American evangelist and Christian leader.
(1918 - 2018)
Monday, May 13, 2019“[A harmonious marriage produces] great benefits, both to families and to states. For there is nothing which so welds our life together as the love of man and wife.”
St. John Chrysostom
Bishop & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(349AD - 407AD)
Friday, May 10, 2019“Have caution in not allowing yourself to be struck down by adversity nor becoming vain by prosperity.”
St. Clare of Assisi
Italian nun and founder of a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, commonly known as the Poor Clares.
(1194 - 1253)
Thursday, May 09, 2019“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ”
William Ralph Inge
Anglican priest, author and professor.
(1860 - 1954)
Wednesday, May 08, 2019“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States.
(1884 - 1962)
Tuesday, May 07, 2019“Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?”
Julius "Nipsey" Russell
American comedian, poet and dancer.
(1918 - 2005)
Monday, May 06, 2019“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
John Ruskin
English social thinker and philanthropist.
(1819 - 1900)
Friday, May 03, 2019“Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid and say to him: 'O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.' ”
St. Boniface
English Archbishop, Missionary and Martyr.
(675 AD - 754 AD)
Thursday, May 02, 2019“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Eric Arthur Blair
English novelist who used the pen name George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984.
(1903 - 1950)
Wednesday, May 01, 2019“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
Václav Havel
Czech statesman, writer and former dissident & last president of Czechoslovakia.
(1936 - 2011)
