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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…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” ― Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1682…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.” ― Frederic Bastiat BIRTHDAYS: 1755 Albert Christoph Dies, German painter, engraver and biographer of Josef Haydn. 1800 William Henry Fox…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1770 Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer.…