April 17, 2023
QUOTE
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
--Benjamin Franklin
BIRTHDAYS
1837 – J. P. Morgan, Banker and financier and founder of J.P. Morgan & Co.
1918 – William Holden, Actor
1942 – Buster Williams, Jazz bassist
1954 – Roddy Piper, Professional wrestler and actor
IN MEMORY
1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania.
IN ON THIS DAY
1861 – The state of Virginia’s secession convention votes to secede from the United States.
1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1961 – A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1970 – The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
2014 – NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.