Thought for Today

"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time."

~~~~~ Gioachino Rossini

Thought for Today

"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."

~~~~~ Michel de Montaigne

Thought for Today

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought for Today

"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

~~~~~ Victor Hugo

Thought for Today

"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."

~~~~~ John Foster Dulles

Thought for Today

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

~~~~~ Chester W. Nimitz

Thought for Today

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

~~~~~ Tom Bodett

Thought for Today

"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."

~~~~~ James Russell Lowell

But James Russell Lowell never heard of Donald Trump.

Thought for Today

"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied."

~~~~~ Otto Hermann Kahn

Thought for Today

"Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward."

~~~~~ Georges Bernanos

Thought for Today

"A great many people mistake opinions for thought."

~~~~~ Herbert V. Prochnow

Thought for Today

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

~~~~~ Wendell Willkie

Thought for Today

"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."

~~~~~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Thought for Today

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

~~~~~ Henry Adams

My Opinion of Trump

Thought for Today

"Independence is happiness."

~~~~~ Susan B. Anthony

Thought for Today

"Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character."

~~~~~ Justice Antonin Scalia

Thought for Today

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."

~~~~~ Robert Jackson

Thought for Today

"My father [Theodore Roosevelt] always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."

~~~~~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Thought for Today

"Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me."

~~~~~ Leo Szilard

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"Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs."

~~~~~ William Allen White

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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

~~~~~ John Ruskin

Thought for Today

"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."

~~~~~ Eubie Blake

Thought for Today

"I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds."

~~~~~ Louis Nizer

Thought for Today

"We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals."

~~~~~ Arthur Keith

Thought for Today

"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."

~~~~~ Hartley William Shawcross

Thought for Today

"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."

~~~~~ Walter Bagehot

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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."

~~~~~ Knute Nelson

Thought for Today

"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."

~~~~~ Richard Whately