Thoughts of the Day:

Remember TOTD's are due Tuesdays.  Remember you must respond to 2 of this weeks TOTD's.  Explain 
the quote, how does it relate to our discussions in class, how does it relate to our society 
today, and which goal within the Standard Course of Study within our curriculum it addresses.

You want to do this in paragraph form.

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