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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” But “there is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents…. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Who will watch the watchers?” ― Juvenal BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest. Dixit Dominus, and Rimante in pace 1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer. Cavalleria Leggera, Ouverture. 1852 George Clausen, English painter. 1907 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American classical and film…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” ― JSB Morse BIRTHDAYS: 1539 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter. 1568 Christophe Thomas Walliser, French composer. Cum natus esset Jesu 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Cantabo Domino, Sacrae Cantiones 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions. Many times, for instance, I’ve heard people say, “A free market in education is a bad idea because some child somewhere might fall…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.” ― Jonathan Rauch BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” ― Lysander Spooner BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. 1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of late-Renaissance…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.” ― Henry Hazlitt BIRTHDAYS: 1716 Felice Giardini, Italian composer. Concerto op.15 n.1 1801 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austrian composer and violinist. “Abendsterne”, Walzer, op.180 1831 Constantin Meunier,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The man who is not permitted to own is owned.” ― George Santayana BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonata pour la flute à bec – Lentement, and Sonate en ré mineur pour flûte alto, par l’ensemble Amarillis 1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.” ― Lucretia Mott BIRTHDAYS: 401 Theodosius II, Roman emperor from 402 to 450. 1583 Hugo Grotius, Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. 1737 Francois Giroust, French composer.…