March 2016

"Thanks, King."

- Jim Thorpe
​(after being congratulated by the king of Sweden for being the greatest athlete in the world)

February 2016

"The heavens opened up and it rained fire."

- Mrs. John Tolerton Bagnall, a survivor of the Great Fire of '71

January 2016

​"Do right and risk the consequences."

​- Sam Houston

December 2015

"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results."

- Alfred Nobel

November 2015

" I call upon the people of the United States to observe [Thanksgiving] by offering to God our devout gratitude for His goodness to us and to our fellow men."

- President Franklin D. Roosevelt

October 2015

"Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know."

- General Philip Sheridan

September 2015

"After you've decided to lie, it's very hard to tell the truth."

- Jewish former Wehrmacht officer and German chancellor Helmut Schmidt

August 2015

"It is easier to build strong children than to rebuild broken men."

​- Frederick Douglass

July 2015

"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."

- Andrew Johnson

June 2015

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

- Abraham Lincoln

May 2015

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense."

- Mark Twain

April 2015

"I am responsible only to God and history."

- Francisco Franco

March 2015

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; 
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."

- Harry S. Truman

February 2015

"The longer I live, the less I seem to know...
Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough."

- John Adams

January 2015

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

- Ronald Reagan

December 2014

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.
Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"

- Bob Hope

November 2014

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

October 2014

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

September 2014

"It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company."

- George Washington

August 2014

"The  privileges of being an American belong to those brave enough to fight for them."

- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

July 2014

"If ever a time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."

- Samuel Adams

June 2014

"God gives us free will, to do good or bad. I was ready to give my life to be able to help."

- Irene Gut Opdyke

May 2014

"Nothing can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

April 2014

"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development."

- Elizabeth Blackwell

March 2014

When asked by his son (my great uncle, Ted Williams, Tuscarora elder), "Who is stronger, God or the Creator?", my great grandfather (Eleazar Williams, Tuscarora chief and medicine man) replied, "Neither. God IS the Creator!"

- Rachel (Author of History Buff)

February 2014

"Mighty waters cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot sweep it away."

- King Solomon

January 2014

"I came as near giving right up and sinking down there to die as a man can and not do it. Somehow I got out and made my way along."

- The Blizzard of 1888's most famous victim: Roscoe Conkling, Senator from NY, 
who died two weeks later from pneumonia

December 2013

"And so this is Christmas... what have you done?"

- John Lennon  (The Beatles)

November 2013



"A smile is the shortest distance between two people."

- Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)  US (Danish-born) comedian & pianist
(One of the Danish Jews that survived the Nazi invasion.)

October 2013

"If God had intended the human nose to be used for a chimney, He would have turned our nostrils up."

- George Washington Carver
 (on smoking)

September 2013

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."

- Theodore Roosevelt

August 2013

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas A. Edison

July 2013

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword.
The other is by debt."

- John Adams

June 2013

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

- Jackie Robinson

May 2013

"Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

- Abraham Lincoln