Thought for Today

"Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents."

~~~~~ Ambrose Bierce

Thought for Today

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."

~~~~~ Oliver Goldsmith

Thought for Today

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

~~~~~ James Madison

Thought for Today

"A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature."

~~~~~ Lord Bryce

Thought for Today

"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought for Today

"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."

~~~~~ Elbert Hubbard

Thought for Today

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

~~~~~ Theodore Roosevelt

Thought for Today

"Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are."

~~~~~ Peggy Noonan

Thought for Today

"Piety requries us to honor truth above friends."

~~~~~ Aristotle

Thought for Today

"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."

~~~~~ Alistaire Cooke