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February 26, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended…
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February 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was… The struggle of…
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February 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We…
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February 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.” ― Cato BIRTHDAYS: 1633 Samuel Pepys, the creator of one of the most important primary sources of the English Restoration period. 1649 John Blow, English organist, composer. Ground, and Salvator mundi, and Minuet, and…
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February 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common utility. Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible [i.e., inviolable] rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety…
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February 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”When an individual or a party is wronged in the United States, to whom can he apply for redress? If to public opinion, public opinion constitutes the majority; if to the legislature, it represents the majority, and implicitly obeys its injunctions; if to the executive power, it is appointed by the…
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February 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Which is the more misleading, belief without evidence, or refusal to believe in presence of overwhelming evidence? If there is an irrational faith which persists without any facts to support it, there is an irrational lack of faith which persists spite of the accumulation of facts which should produce it; and…
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February 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.” ―…
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February 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation…
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February 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1443 Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist who, basing his philosophy on Renaissance ideas, placed special emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the complete development of the self, from both an intellectual…
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