Thoughts of the Day:
You want to do this in paragraph form.
WEEK 14
Tuesday(12/8): "The business of America is business." Calvin Coolidge
Wednesday(12/9): "These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."
Abraham Lincoln
Thursday(12/10): Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual
responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
Friday(12/11): "A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has
something that they want."
Monday(12/4): "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression when you lose yours."
Ronald Reagan
WEEK 13
Tuesday(12/1): "Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of
competition." Henry Clay
Wednesday(12/2): "The value of a thing is the amount of labor or work that its possession will save to the
possessor." Henry George
Thursday(12/3): "There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. Problem is they cost a quarter."
Franklin Adams
Friday(12/4): "Demand is not a fixed quantity that increases only as population increases. In each
individual it rises with his power of getting things demanded."
Monday(12/7): "Necessity never made a good bargain." Ben Franklin
WEEK 12
Tuesday(11/17): "Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant."
Edgar Howe
Wednesday(11/18): "I decline to answer on the grounds that what I say may tend to incriminate me."
Susan McDougal
Thursday(11/19): "There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick."
Friday(11/20): NONE
Monday(11/23): "Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and the money not scarce."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
WEEK 11
Tuesday(11/10): All interests, to someone, are special.
Wednesday(11/11): VETERAN'S DAY
Thursday(11/12): "Image is everything. Perception is reality."
Friday(11/13): "No written law has ever been more binding than an unwritten custom supported by popular
opinion.
Monday(11/16): "The law is not an end in itself nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to
serve what we think is right." William Brennan
WEEK 10
Monday(11/2): "Our differences are policies, our agreements principles." William McKinley
Tuesday(11/3): The Democratic Party is like a man riding backward in a carriage. It never sees a thing
until it has gone by.
A Republican, one who is opposed to things he is in favor of.
Wednesday(11/4): "Change brought about by ballot is stronger than that brought about by the bullet."
Thursday(11/5): "Money is the mother's milk of politics."
Friday(11/6): NONE
Monday(11/9): "There is no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people." Donn Platt
WEEK 8
Wednesday(10/14): NONE
Thursday(10/15): I owe paramount allegiance to the whole union, a subordinate one to my own state.
Friday(10/16): The states should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the general government. Thomas Jefferson
Monday(10/19): All politics is local. Tip O'Neill
Tuesday(10/20): The government is us;we are the government, you and I. Teddy Roosevelt
WEEK 7
Wednesday(10/7): The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. George Washington
Thursday(10/8): Laws are dead letters without courts to expand and define their true meaning and operation. Thomas Jefferson
Friday(10/9): Justice is the end of ogvernment... It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained. James Madison
Monday(10/12): Men always lose half of what is gained by violence;what is gained by argument is gained forever. Alexander Hamilton
Tuesday(10/13): A president who sets out to pack the court does nothing more than seek to appoint people to the Court who are sympathetic to his political or philsophical principles." William Rehnquist
WEEK6
Wednesday(9/30): "No man who ever held the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. John Adams
Thursday(10/1): No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientously can have any leisure. James K. Polk
Friday(10/2): Oh, if I could only be President and Congress, too, for just ten minutes. Teddy Roosevelt
Monday(10/5): The nation that forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. Calvin Coolidge
Tuesday(10/6): Problem? Let's create a committee to study it, create another bureacratic agency to monitor and control it, institute unrealistic rules, and wonder why they don't work. Frustrated bureacrat
WEEK 5
Wednesday(9/23): NONE
Thursday(9/24): That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. Thomas Jefferson Friday(9/25): The seniority system keeps a handful of old men in control of the Congress. Shirley Chisholm Monday(9/28): It is Congress that voters mistrust, not there own Congressmen. Peter Goldman
Tuesday(9/29): Any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
WEEK 4
Wednesday(9/16): My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson
Thursday(9/17): We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
Friday(9/18): You can not hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington
Monday(9/21): No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America-there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. John Kennedy
Tuesday(9/22): Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony
WEEK 3
Wednesday(9/9): In question of power...let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constituion. Thomas Jefferson
Thursday(9/10): All that is valuable in the Constitution is one thousand years old. Wendell Phillips
Friday(9/11): To think is to differ. Clarence Darrow
Monday(9/14): The office of government is not to confer happiness but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Tuesday(9/15): Our Federal Union, it must be preserved. Andrew Jackson
WEEK 2
Wednesday(9/2): The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the heart and minds of the
people. John Adams
Thursday(9/3): We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hand separately. Ben Franklin
Friday(9/4): There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others. Elbert Hubbard
Monday(9/7): Labor Day
Tuesday(9/8): Self-government is the natural government of man. Henry Clay
WEEK 1
Wednesday(8/26): Fear is the foundation of most governments. John Adams
Thursday(8/27): If men were angels, there would be no need for government. James Madison
Friday(8/28): Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
Monday(8/31): In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before. Ellery Sedgwick
Tuesday(9/1): Then join hand in hand brave Americans all, by uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. John Dickinson