Quote of the Day: 7 May 2017

"The Lord has blessed each of you with greater capacity than you realize. Your I.Q. may not be the highest in the world. So what? Our jails are filled with clever men who were anything but smart. I have concluded that the work of the world is not done by intellectual geniuses. It is done by men of ordinary capacity who use their abilities in an extraordinary manner." -Gordon Hinckley

Quote of the Day: 6 May 2017

"Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature." -Rudyard Kipling

[Or in other words discretion is the better part of valor.]

Quote of the Day: 5 May 2017

"It takes service and sacrifice to maintain ideals." -Calvin Coolidge

[Among those sacrifices may be the need to accept personal responsibility for problems rather than taking the tempting path of demanding from government a remedy to our ills.]

Quote of the Day: 4 May 2017

"[W]e should ask ourselves, 'Is it really "sharing" if I have to do it at gunpoint?' I was always taught that sharing was an act of free will. When you give half your sandwich to a friend who forgot to pack his lunch, you've shared it. If he threatens to beat you up if you don't give it to him, 'sharing' is no longer the operative term." -Lawrence W. Reed

[Keeping in mind that the government is essentially a big pointing guns a people machine.]

Quote of the Day: 3 May 2017

"[I]f we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat." -Lord Vetinari, The Truth

[There is a need to be proactive in your life. If you do not attempt to take some measure of control, you will be controlled by events instead.]

Quote of the Day: 2 May 2017

"Such it is with dogs: whether you are gone five minutes or five hours, they believe it was forever as you hope beyond reason that it will never be." -L.B. Johnson

Quote of the Day: 1 May 2017

"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit." -Samuel Gompers

[A company that does not generate a profit will soon be gone, and with it the jobs that it formerly provided. Too many fail to see where their salary comes from, and take it as an article of faith that corporations and companies earning a profit is somehow evil.]