Mona Charen: Quote for January 6, 2012

The sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors — "compassion" having become the province of the state.

-- Mona Charen

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Ellen DeGeneres: Quote for January 5, 2012

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

-- Ellen DeGeneres

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Ronald Reagan: Quote for January 4, 2012

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

-- Ronald Reagan

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Ron Crickenberger: Quote for January 3, 2012

If the government can't keep drugs away from inmates who are locked in steel cages, surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, drug-tested, strip-searched, X-rayed, and videotaped — how can it possibly stop the flow of drugs to an entire nation?

-- Ron Crickenberger

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Og Mandino: Quote for January 2, 2012

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

-- Og Mandino

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Taylor Swift: Quote for January 1, 2012

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

-- Taylor Swift

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Benjamin Franklin: Quote for December 31, 2011

Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year find you
a better person.

-- Benjamin Franklin

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Arthur O'Shaughnessy: Quote for December 30, 2011

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.

-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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Leon Trotsky: Quote for December 29, 2011

The ancient philosopher said that strife is the father of all things. No new values can be created where a free conflict of ideas is impossible. To be sure, a revolutionary dictatorship means by its very essence strict limitations of freedom. But for that very reason epochs of revolution have never been directly favorable to cultural creation: they have only cleared the arena for it. The dictatorship of the proletariat opens a wider scope to human genius the more it ceases to be a dictatorship. The socialist culture will flourish only in proportion to the dying away of the state.

-- Leon Trotsky

Even Trotsky, a famous communist, said that freedom of speech and less government was good for socialism. I hope that the current socialist governments keep this quote in mind.

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Orville Wright: Quote for December 28, 2011

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

-- Orville Wright

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Samuel Johnson: Quote for December 27, 2011

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

-- Samuel Johnson

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Mark Twain: Quote for December 26, 2011

The approach of Christmas brings harrassment and dread to many excellent people. They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and they never know what to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three weeks of hard and anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they are so dissatisfied with the result, and so disappointed that they want to sit down and cry. Then they give thanks that Christmas comes but once a year.

-- Mark Twain

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Johnny Marks: Quote for December 25, 2011

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!

-- Johnny Marks

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Calvin Coolidge: Quote for December 24, 2011

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

-- Calvin Coolidge

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Richard Lamm: Quote for December 23, 2011

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

-- Richard Lamm

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