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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…

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…

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…

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.” ―…

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…

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…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Intellectual freedom is essential — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery. The man that takes his earnings, must be able…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” ― Victor Hugo BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Fain would I wed, and Coordonné 1945 David D. Friedman, American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist (The Machinery of Freedom) 1948…