Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
On this day in history, March 23, 1775, patriot Patrick Henry demands, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’
Ineptocracy: A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf
The welfare state is the greatest confidence racket of all time. The government takes your money in taxes and then turns around and spends some of it to give you things. For this, you feel dependent on them, when in fact they are dependent on you.
–Thomas Sowell
“Once a government is committed to the principal of silencing the voice of opposition, it only has one way to go, and that is down the path of increasing repressive measures, until it becomes source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
Truman quote
President Biden’s “Disinformation Governance Board” is part of a dictatorship control.
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.
Max Stirner
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D. H. Lawrence
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan
“People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators.”
― Thomas Sowell
“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.”
John Adams
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
Thomas Jefferson
For Americans and all people in general, religious or not. Under God, will ALWAYS be better than Under democrats or tyranny!
–Don Wood
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
I have noticed that all people in favor of abortion have already been born.
Ronald Regan.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
Alexander Hamilton, “The Farmer Refuted”, February 5, 1775
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
Robert Adams
No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain
Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell
The following is on the headstone of N. Grigsby’s grave in the Attica, KS cemetery:
“Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic Party
I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson and know that all the misfortunes of our nation has come to it through this so called party
therefore beware of this party of treason.”
Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out … People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically right. Guns ended that, and a social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
– L. Neil Smith
“Political freedom includes in it every other blessing. All the pleasures of riches, science, virtue, and even religion itself derive their value from liberty alone. No wonder therefore wise and prudent legislators have in all ages been held in such great veneration; and no wonder too those illustrious souls who have employed their pens and sacrificed their lives in defense of liberty have met with such universal applause. Their reputations, like some majestic river which enlarges and widens as it approaches its parent ocean, shall become greater and greater through every age and outlive the ruins of the world itself.”
Benjamin Rush, to Catharine Macaulay, January 18, 1769
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― James Madison
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
–Ansel Adams
To my son. Nate
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
Thomas Jefferson
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob Marley
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Milton Friedman
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Winston Churchill
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
– Charles Darwin
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
– Jim Rohn
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
-Dr. Seuss
“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”
–BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
Chris Christie
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
–Malcolm X
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.”
– Lindsey Vonn
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
-Les Brown
Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.
–Maxime Lagacé
A judge’s role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
— Paul Watford
“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
–Milton Friedman
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
–H. L. Mencken
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
–George Bernard Shaw
“What about feeling sorry for those…who pay the taxes? Those are the people NO ONE ever feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say ‘Enough!’ they are called selfish.”
“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
“Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.”
“End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.”
“Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims.”
“In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?”
“The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.”
“Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.”
“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
–Rush Limbaugh
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
–Gerald R. Ford
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
-Herbert Bayard Swope
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
— David Starr Jordan
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”
John Adams
“Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.”
– Will Rogers
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Francis of Assisi
“I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
— Mark Twain
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
“The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.”
– Sam Cawthorn
If small businesses were at risk 6 months ago? If they are still open today, they are on life support! If you think the government is really concerned, your brain dead!
-Don Wood
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.” – Leo Tolstoy
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
—Mother Teresa
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.
Elvis Presley
Socialism is very good at promising all the benefits we’ll never see.
If you wake up and find your life full. Give everything away and you’ll have room to grow.
Don Wood 1/28/2021
Will try to post something at least once a week if not more.