I am apt to believe that Independence Day will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival… it ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.

John Adams –

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain –

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William F. Buckley, Jr. –

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell –

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

William Ellery Channing –

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

William Arthur Ward –

Knowledge is the real power.

Ronnie Coleman –

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison –

The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche –

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one’s self.

Publilius Syrus –