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2023

September 24

"Engaged, as I am, in a great war, I fear it will be difficult for the world to understand how fully I appreciate the principles of peace, inculcated in this letter, and everywhere, by the Society of Friends."

September 17

"In any fight, it's the first blow that counts; and if you keep it up hot enough, you can whip'em as fast as they come." -Nathan Bedford Forest

September 10

"The patriot volunteer, fighting for his country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier upon earth." -Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

September 03

"Think of three Things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." -Benjamin Franklin

August 27

"I have always believed that most people are mostly, good most of the time." -Gerald R. Ford

August 20

"whenever the light of civilization falls upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness." -Theodore Roosevelt

August 13

"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." -Henry David Thoreau

August 06

"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." -Ernest Hemingway

July 30

"For our own country, it has been a time of recurring trial. We have grown in power and in responsibility. We have passed through the anxieties of depression and of war, but to a summit unmatched in man's history. Seeking to secure peace in the world, while we have had to fight our way through the forests of the Argonne to the shores of Iwo Jima, and to the cold mountains of Korea." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

July 23

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that one way or another." -J. Robert Oppenheimer

July 16

"Engage your brain before you engage your weapon." -Jim Mattis

July 09

"But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised." -Ulysses S. Grant

July 02

“"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country." -George Washington

June 25

“How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”- Abraham Lincoln

June 18

"Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself." -Teddy Roosevelt

June 11

"The first time I saw a poster wanting men to sign up to be paratroopers and heard how hard it would be to make it in, I knew that was for me. I wanted an elite group of soldiers around me." -Frank Soboleski

June 04

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." -Grover Cleveland

May 28

“If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value." -John Adams

May 21

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to be left alone."-Henry David Thoreau

May 14

"If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me and will back them up in every way." -Executive Order 10631

May 07

“It’s funny. A lot of people say they’d like to be Michael Jordan for a day or for a week. But let them try to be Michael Jordan for a year. See if they like it… Let them see that it’s no fun.” -Michael Jordan

April 30

“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.” -John Muir

April 23

"For better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead America toward a new age. You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age." -Lyndon B. Johnson

April 16

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort." -Theodore Roosevelt

April 09

“I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.” -John McCain

April 02

"All the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters. Every single man in the army plays a vital role. So don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. What if every truck driver decided that he didn't like the whine of the shells and turned yellow and jumped headlong into a ditch? That cowardly bastard could say to himself, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' What if every man said that? Where in the hell would we be then? No, thank God, Americans don't say that. Every man does his job. Every man is important." -George S. Patton

March 26

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent." -Barbara Bush

March 19

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right," -Thomas Paine

March 12

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” -Ernest Hemingway

March 05

"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation." -Coretta Scott King

February 27

"You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -Woodrow Wilson

February 19

"We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet." -Henry Ford

February 12

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." -Nathan Hale

February 05

“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

January 29

"Tragic fate has thrust upon us grave responsibilities. We must carry on. Our departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is what he would want us to do. That is what America will do." -Harry S. Truman

January 22

“Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.” -Neil Strauss

January 15

“The more information that’s out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn’t what’s scarce; it’s the willingness to do something with it." -Tyler Cowen

January 08

"But after two years of this, I said to myself, "What have I done in the past twenty-four months?" And the answer was, "Little or nothing." I recognized that accomplishment requires isolation." -Nikola Tesla

January 01

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance." -Jeanette Winterson