THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

— Benjamin Franklin

BIRTHDAYS:

1694 Louis-Claude Daquin [d’Acquin], French organist and composer (La Rose). Noël X

1776 United States of Ameria, the world’s oldest continuous constitutional republic, founded on a written constitution (1787) with a strong emphasis on individual liberty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism.

1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author/novelist (The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables).

1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.

1847 James Anthony Bailey, American owner and manager of several 19th-century circuses, including the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (also billed as “The Greatest Show on Earth”).

1906 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist, meteorologist, and scientist (pioneered cloud seeding).

1927 Neil Simon, American playwright (The Odd Couple)

MISCELLANEOUS:

GOT 11 MINUTES? Senator John F. Kennedy Reading Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1957

ATTENTION CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Democrats and Republicans MUST Stop Lying About Their Deficit Spending and Debt, Beginning July 5, 2026, if America is to Survive