Posted on December 26, 2025 “The unscrupulous are always ready to profit from war.”—Christopher Fowler (‘Bryant & May: Peculiar London’), English author, 1953-2023
Posted on December 10, 2025December 9, 2025 “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”—Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist, 1811-1884 (also attributed to Thomas Jefferson)
Posted on October 11, 2025October 11, 2025 “Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.”—‘The Pale Horse’, Agatha Christie, English mystery writer, 1890-1976
Posted on July 9, 2025 “The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts….”—Article I, Section 8, Clause 8; U.S. Constitution
Posted on June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC
Posted on March 24, 2025 “The difference between bad speech and bad deeds is opportunity.”—Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD
Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”—Mary W. Shelley, English novelist, 1797-1851
Posted on September 18, 2024September 17, 2024 “Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.”—(‘King Lear’), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616
Posted on September 1, 2024September 1, 2024 “Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1926-2017
Posted on November 7, 2023November 6, 2023 “DESTINY, n.: a tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.”—Ambrose Bierce, American journalist, 1842-1914
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