Tag: history
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March 7, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is the human purpose in society? It is to exchange one good for another good more desired. Putting it on a personal basis, it is a matter of benefiting yourself by getting something you desire from another person who, at the same time, benefits himself by getting something that he…
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March 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is progress? You might think that the question is so subjective and culturally relative as to be forever unanswerable. In fact, it’s one of the easier questions to answer. Most people agree that life is better than death. Health is better than sickness. Sustenance is better than hunger. Abundance is…
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March 5, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1637 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor (fire hose; street lighting). 1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian Venetian Rococo painter. 1794 Jacques…
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March 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie BIRTHDAYS: 1610 William Dobson, English portraitist and painter. 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Four Seasons: Winter (L’Inverno) 1756 Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter. 1826…
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March 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.” — Murray Rothbard BIRTHDAYS: 1845 Georg Cantor, mathematician who played a pivotal role in…
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March 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.” — Isabel Paterson BIRTHDAYS: 1793 Sam Houston, American general and statesman who played…
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March 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1445 Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter. 1810 Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. All 21 Nocturnes. 1817…
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February 28, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1616 Kaspar Förster, German composer.…
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February 27, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1622 Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter. 1649…
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February 26, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” — Victor Hugo BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (Dr Faustus). 1587 Stefano Landi, Italian opera composer (Il Sant’Alessio), and teacher, born in Rome, Papal States. Passacaglia della Vita, and A che più l’arco tendere 1675 Johann Philipp Treiber, German composer,…
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