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Friday June 12th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784) English author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Source Reference Dr. Samuel Johnson Quote
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Thursday June 11th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.” Frederick W. Faber, (1814-1863) British hymn writer and theologian. Source Reference Frederick W. Faber Quote
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Wednesday June 10th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet. Source: Nominalist and Realist, 184. Source Reference Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
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Tuesday June 9th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these…
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Monday June 8th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.” Plato, (429-347 BC) Greek philosopher. Source: The Republic, ca. 390 B.C. Source Reference Plato Quote
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Thursday June 4th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.” Edmund Burk, (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker. Source Reference Edmund Burke Quote
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Wednesday June 3rd, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source: Attributed. Source Reference Famous Benjamin Franklin Quote
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Tuesday June 2nd, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.” Vaclav Havel, (1936-2011) Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, statesman, last President of Czechoslovakia. Source Reference Vaclav Havel Quote
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Monday June 1st, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.” Gordon B. Hinckley, (1910-2008) 15th President of The Church of…
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Friday May 29th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.” Frederick Douglass, [Frederick Baily]…
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Thursday May 28th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Civil libertarians must often remind government officials (and others) that if the First Amendment only protected the expression of popular and agreeable ideas, it would be totally unnecessary since those ideas would never be threatened by our democratic form of…
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Wednesday May 27th, 2020 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.” Ernest Renan, (1823-1892). Source Reference Ernest Renan Quote
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