Category: Inspiration

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Citizen In A Republic

Wise words these. It behooves us to be reminded of them from time to time.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” given be Theodore Roosevelt in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910

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Lew Rockwell On Governments

Lew Rockwell On Governments
This applies in America and Australia as much today as it ever did.
Currently, members of political parties have a greater allegiance to their party and their donors than to their electorate.
We need to start campaigning NOW to elect representatives of the electorate NOT representatives of political parties.

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Would Grandma Recognise It

Would Grandma Recognise It
Wise advice this. The only caveat is that she would need to be versed in all culinary cultures to avail herself of the best of the world’s nutrition. The meat and three veggies my grandmothers would have been pleased to dish up doesn’t come close to being the best diet possible.