Daily Motivations

"Daily Motivations" - 20080822

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. -- Elbert Hubbard



"The Patriot Post"

"This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour." -- Benjamin Franklin


"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted,to be free." -- Thomas Jefferson



"The e-mail bag"

I believe the democrats have suddenly developed a keen sense of morality. John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the democratic convention for having an affair and lying about it. -- In his place, Bill Clinton will be speaking.