April 15, 2023
QUOTE
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
--Abraham Lincoln
BIRTHDAYS
1933 – Roy Clark, Musician and television personality
1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery, Actress and producer (Big Minnifield crush growing up)
1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1990 – Emma Watson, English actress
IN MEMORY
1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
1980 – Raymond Bailey, Aactor and soldier
1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician
2018 – R. Lee Ermey, Actor, soldier
IN ON THIS DAY
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m.
1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.