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Monday, Jul 30, 2018“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
Wendell Willkie
Attorney and corporate executive.
(1892 - 1944)
Friday, Jul 27, 2018“The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.”
Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1722 - 1803)
Thursday, Jul 26, 2018“Children are not raised by programs, governments, or villages; they are raised by two parents who are fervently, even irrationally, devoted to their children's well-being. Although the benefits of two parents are beyond dispute, many children-in some communities, most children-are raised by one parent.”
James Q. Wilson
American academic and political scientist.
(1931 - 2012)
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2018“With freedom comes responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States.
(1884 - 1962)
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2018“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.”
Richard Henry Lee
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1732 - 1794)
Monday, Jul 23, 2018“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1732 - 1808)
Friday, Jul 20, 2018“The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church; which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1722 - 1803)
Thursday, Jul 19, 2018“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement.”
John Hancock
American patriot and statesman.
(1737 - 1793)
Wednesday, Jul 18, 2018“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
John D. Rockefeller
American industrialist and philanthropist.
(1839 - 1937)
Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.”
Erastus Wiman
Canadian journalist and businessman.
(1834 - 1904)
Monday, Jul 16, 2018“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Robert Frost
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet.
(1874 - 1963)
Friday, Jul 13, 2018“Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?”
Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
United States Senator.
(1924 - 2014)
Thursday, Jul 12, 2018“Every person in an organization is as important and necessary to a mission as the next person. That goes from the top to the bottom.”
Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr.
United States Army lieutenant general and author.
(1922 - 2017)
Wednesday, Jul 11, 2018“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”
F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher.
(1899 - 1992)
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2018“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States.
(1809 - 1865)
Monday, Jul 09, 2018“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
Elbert Green Hubbard
American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher.
(1856 - 1915)
Friday, Jul 06, 2018“I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping.”
George Washington
1st President of the United States.
(1732 - 1799)
Thursday, Jul 05, 2018“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea - and what an idea it is: that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you came from, but where you are going.”
Condoleezza Rice
Former U.S. Secretary of State.
(1954 - present)
Tuesday, Jul 03, 2018“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States.
(1917 - 1963)
Monday, Jul 02, 2018“Freedom must be served as well as sought. It imposes duties and obligations, as well as bestowing rights and liberties.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President & Five-Star General.
(1890 - 1969)
