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One of my favorite quotes from my readings.

"Just as nothing produces paralyzing apathy like doubt and resignation, nothing produces cleverness like staring down a crisis with a lionhearted snarl."

-Sean Patrick, Alexander the Great: The Macedonian Who Conquered the World
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."

William Henry Harrison
March 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
“..And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?..”

Thomas Jefferson
March 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin
March 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”

George Washington
March 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country.—
March 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official”

Theodore Roosevelt
March 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.”

Benjamin Franklin
March 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
March 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
One of my favorite quotes from my readings.

"Just as nothing produces paralyzing apathy like doubt and resignation, nothing produces cleverness like staring down a crisis with a lionhearted snarl."

-Sean Patrick, Alexander the Great: The Macedonian Who Conquered the World
March 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM