• We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. -Benjamin Franklin, Freedom Fighter

  • We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Fighter

  • Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. -Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher

  • A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity. -Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher

  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

  • Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi, Mystic

  • If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes, Philosopher

  • A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Abraham Lincoln, President

  • Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein, Scientist

  • Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom Fighter

- December 25, 2007 -

Holiday Season, 2007

Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward All. In less than two weeks, we, the people, will begin for real the task of selecting our next President. Beginning January 3rd in Iowa and ending ten months later on Read more »

- November 22, 2007 -

Thanksgiving, 2007

If I have seen further than my fellow man it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton I vividly remember what Mr. Welch, my fourth grade teacher, taught us about Thanksgiving. Mr. Welch, the Read more »

- September 17, 2007 -

Constitution Day, 2007

We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves Read more »

- July 4, 2007 -

Independence Day, 2007

E Pluribus Unum From Many, One Two hundred thirty one years ago 56 Patriots pledged their lives, liberties and sacred honor to the vision that we, their descendants, might partake of the blessings of liberty. Twenty-four were Read more »

- May 26, 2007 -

Memorial Day, 2007

How many times must we tell the tale? How many times must we fall? Eric Clapton This week brought two provocative items across my desk. One was a news report of the recent Pew poll showing that Read more »

- January 15, 2007 -

Martin Luther King Day, 2007

“The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice!” Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s been more than 40 years since Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” sermon on the steps Read more »

- December 25, 2006 -

Holiday Season, 2006

Peace on Earth. Good will to all. Christmas Blessing In 1956, nine years into the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower launched a cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union. His goal was to forge a bond of Read more »

- November 23, 2006 -

Thanksgiving, 2006

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of Read more »

- September 11, 2006 -

September 11, 2006

These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine December 23, 1776 On October 13, 1998, less than five years before 9/11, I landed in Dubai, one of five Kingdoms making up the United Arab Emirates. Read more »

- July 4, 2006 -

Independence Day, 2006

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That Read more »

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