Thought for Today

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

~~~~~ Berthold Auerbach

Thought for Today

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

~~~~~ Margaret Thatcher

Thought for Today

"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."

~~~~~ Johnny Cash

Thought for Today

"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

~~~~~ Lewis Thomas

Thought for Today

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

~~~~~ John Ruskin

Thought for Today

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

~~~~~ Robert H. Schuller

Thought for Today

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes – and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"

~~~~~ Barry Goldwater

Thought for Today

"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."

~~~~~ Moshe Sharett

Sarah Palin at the Long Island Association

On Thursday, February 17, 2011, Sarah Palin sat down for a one-hour Q&A at the monthly meeting of the Long Island Association. Her questioner was Kevin Law, a Democrat. Watch -- and judge for yourself.

(Note: After she’s announced until she sits down, there is no sound. The sound comes back on as soon as the Q&A begins. It was probably a matter of switching on the microphones. Other than the applause when she sits down, there is nothing missing.)

Thought for Today

"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."

~~~~~ Roy E. Disney

Thought for Today

"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country."

~~~~~ Newt Gingrich

Thought for Today

"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."

~~~~~ Albert Pike

Thought for Today

"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."

~~~~~ Tacitus

Thought for Today

"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

~~~~~ Constance Baker Motley

Thought for Today

"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't – it just keeps you from enjoying it."

~~~~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Thought for Today

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."

~~~~~ John Stuart Mill

Thought for Today

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

~~~~~ Lin Yutang

Thought for Today

"You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think."

~~~~~ Howard H. Baker, Jr.

Thought for Today

"And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning."

~~~~~ Isaac Asimov

Thought for Today

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

~~~~~ Marcus Aurelius

Thought for Today

"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."

~~~~~ Arthur C. Brooks

Thought for Today

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."

~~~~~ Ronald Reagan

Thought for Today

"The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

~~~~~ George W. Bush

Thought for Today

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."

~~~~~ Tacitus

Thought for Today

"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."

~~~~~ Gustave Flaubert

Therefore, never argue with liberals.

~~~~~ me

Thought for Today

"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."

~~~~~ Karl A. Menninger

Thought for Today

"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."

~~~~~ Sarah Palin

Thought for Today

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

~~~~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought for Today

"Nations have come under the control of haters and fools."

~~~~~ Carroll O'Connor