Tony's Garden

Thought for the Day: “I see trees of greenRed roses tooI see them bloomFor me and youAnd I think to myselfWhat a wonderful worldI see skies of blueAnd clouds of whiteThe bright blessed dayThe dark sacred nightAnd I think to myselfWhat a wonderful worldThe colors of the rainbowSo pretty in the skyAre also on the…

Thought for the Day: “Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve… But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to…

Thought for the Day: “The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method…

Thought for the Day: “The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.” ― Jordan B. Peterson Birthdays: 1483 Raphael 1660 Johann Kuhnau: Gott, sei mir…

Thought for the Day: “You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Birthdays: 1588 Thomas Hobbes 1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne 1856 Booker T. Washington 1951 Dean Kamen…

Thought for the Day: “Property, not conscience, is the basis of liberty. For the defence of conscience need not arise. Property is always exposed to interference. It is the constant object of policy.” ― Lord Acton Birthdays: 1821 Linus Yale Jr. 1758 Pierre-Paul Prud’hon 1875 Jozef Szulc: Clair de Lune MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great…

Thought for the Day: “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington Birthdays: 1649 Joseph François Salomon: Médée et Jason 1727 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt 1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Capriccio Diabolico, and Tango Op. 210, and Ballata Dall’Esilio MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great…

Thought for the Day: “Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?” ― Thomas Sowell Birthdays: 1763 Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari: Sonata n 1 op 25 “allegro spiritoso” 1805 Hans Christian Andersen 1827 William Holman Hunt 1848…

Thought for the Day: “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.” ― H. L. Mencken Birthdays: 1852 Edward Austin Abbey 1582 Thomas Simpson: Bonny Sweet Robin 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no.2 op.18 1868 Edmond Rostand 1908 Abraham Maslow 1926 Anne McCaffrey 1929 Milan Kundera 1942 Samuel R. Delany Jr. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington…

Thought for the Day: “But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is true as far as it goes, but open to misinterpretation; for only productive employment does that. If a man were paid to pick up pebbles on the…