Thoughts of the Day:

Remember TOTD's are due Thursdays.  Remember you must respond to 2 of this weeks TOTD's.  Explain 
the quote, how does it relate to our discussions in class, how does it relate to our society 
today, and which goal within the Standard Course of Study within our curriculum it addresses.

You want to do this in paragraph form.

WEEK 14

Thursday(5/3): "The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature."

Friday(5/4): "The value of a thing is the amount of labor of work that its possession will save to the possessor."

Monday(5/7): "Necessity never made a good bargain."

Tuesday(5/8): "A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want."

Wednesday(5/9): "The merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves."

WEEK 13

Thursday(4/26): "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." MLK

Friday(4/27): SAME

Monday(4/30): "Can anybody remember when times were not tough and money was not scarce." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday(5/1): "Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition." Henry Clay

Wednesday(5/2): SAME

WEEK 12

Thursday (4/19): "Image is everything."

Friday(4/20): "No written law has ever been more binding than an unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."

Monday(4/23): "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe seldom executed." Ben Franklin

Tuesday(4/24): "The law is not an end in itself nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right." William Brannan.

Wednesday(4/25): Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both the plaintiff and the defendant." Edgar Howe

WEEK 11

Thursday(4/12): "There is no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people." Donn Platt

Friday(4/13): "When it comes to persuading the electorate there is currently nothing more important to a candidate than a wife, kids, and the right kind of animal." Dick Gregory

Monday(4/16): "All interests, to someone, are special." Anonymous

Tuesday(4/17): "The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws." William Ellery Channing

Wednesday(4/18): "There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal." Calvin Coolidge

WEEK 10

Monday(4/9): "Our agreements are our principles, our disagreements, policies."

Tuesday(4/10): "Change brought about by ballot is more lasting than change brought about by bullet."

Wednesday(4/11): "Money is the mother's milk of politics."

WEEK 8

Thursday(3/15): "The states should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the general government."

Friday(3/16): "I owe paramount allegiance to the whole union-a subordinate one to my own state."

Monday(3/19):

Tuesday(3/20): "Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people."

Wednesday(3/21): "The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people."

WEEK 7

Thursday(3/8): "Laws are dead letters without courts to define and expand their true meaning and operation." Thomas Jefferson

Friday(3/9): "A President who sets out to pack the court does nothing more than seek to appoint people to the Court who are sympathetic to his politial or philosophical principles." William Reinquist

Monday(3/12): NONE

Tuesday(3/13): "All politics is local." Tip O'Neill

Wednesday(3/14): "Much has been said about the "sovereignty" of the states, but the word is not in the national constitution, nor as is believed, in any state constitutions." Abe Lincoln

WEEK 6

Thursday(3/1): "No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientously can hae any leisure." James K. Polk

Friday(3/2): "The nation that forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten." Calvin Coolidge

Monday(3/5): "I am fairly out and you are fairly in, now let's see who is happiest." George Washington to John Adams

Tuesday(3/6): The bureaucratic two-step. Congress sees a problem. Creates an agency to deal with it. Agency puts in regulations. The problem is not solved. Congress blames the agency and creates another.

Wednesday(3/7): "The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government." George Washington

WEEK   5

Thursday(2/23): "That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected." Thomas Jefferson

Friday(2/24): "You can't have a Congress that responds to the needs of the working man when there are practically no people here who represent him." Bella Abzug

Monday(2/27): "Any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday(2/28): "No man who ever held the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." John Adams

Wednesday(2/29): "Oh if I could be President and Congress, too, for just ten minutes." Teddy Roosevelt

WEEK 4

Thursday(2/16): "Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less." Susan B. Anthony

Friday(2/17): "No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America-there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle." John F. Kennedy

Monday(2/20): NO   SCHOOL

Tuesday(2/21): "The seniorty system keeps a handful of old men in control of Congress." Shirley Chisholm

Wednesday(2/22): "It is Congress that voters mistrust, not there own Congressmen." Peter Goldman

WEEK 3

Thursday(2/9): "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." Adlai

Stevenson

Friday(2/10): "To Think is to differ." Clarence Darrow

Monday(2/13): "Our federal union, it must be preserved." Andrew Jackson

Tuesday(2/14): "I am for the first amendment from the first word to last. I believe it means what it says."

Hugo Black

Wednesday(2/15): "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

WEEK 2

Thursday(2/2): "We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Ben Franklin

Friday(2/3): "Self-government is the natural government of man." Henry Clay

Monday(2/6): "The office of governmnet is not to confer happiness but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." William Channing

Tuesday(2/7): "In question of power...let no more be heard of confidence in man, bu bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution." Thomas Jefferson

Wednesday(2/8): "All that is valuable in the constitution is one thousand years old." Wendell Phillips

WEEK 1

Wednesday(1/25): "Fear is the foundation of most governments." John Adams

Thursday(1/26): ""There isn't a single human characteristic that can safely labeled "American"'. Mark Twain

Friday(1/27): "The government is us; we are the government, you and I." Teddy Roosevelt

Monday(1/30): In America, getting on in the world meanmeans getting out of the world we have known before." Ellery Sedgwick

Tuesday(1/31): "There is no freedom on earth or any star for those who deny freedom to others." Elbert Hubbard

Wednesday(2/1): "The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the heart and minds of the people." John Adams