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Seems like a good time to remind everyone that Franklin Delano Roosevelt RAISED TAXES ON THE RICH SIGNIFICANTLY and in so doing got us Medicare, Social Security, a jobs program and built an American middle class. -Unknown Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States during the worst depression in American history.…
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical…
When asked if the united States should have a military parade to show off its might, this was then President Eisenhower’s response: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David…
To Everything There Is a Season …A time to be silent, and a time to speak. A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace. -Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 Today, the United States of America is in a state of crisis… constitutionally, economically, and morally. It…
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. -Albert Einstein Private capitalists control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and…
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president…
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentile, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation,like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. -Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924…
Government is instituted for the common good: for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men. -John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second…
This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. -Toni Morrison After the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States,…
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of Power.” – John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” He has been called “a…