Saturday, August 17, 2013

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)



A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Goethe, Conversations with Goethe, 1824.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Great Freemasons: Hoot Gibson (August 6, 1892 – August 23, 1962)

Hoot Gibson (August 6, 1892 – August 23, 1962) was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.

(Truth Lodge 628 of Los Angeles)

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955)


I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
Matthew Henson

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary on various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition during which he may have been the first person to reach the Geographic North Pole.
(Prince Hall Celestial Lodge 3, New York, NY)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25 1803 – April 27 1882)



All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882)

Condescending Eugen Böhm von Bawerk


Monday, August 12, 2013

Great Freemasons: Robert Mills (August 12, 1781 – March 3, 1855)

Robert Mills (August 12, 1781 – March 3, 1855), most famously known for designing the Washington Monument, is sometimes called the first native born American to become a professional architect, though Charles Bulfinch perhaps has a clearer claim to this honor. Mills studied in Charleston, South Carolina as a student of Irish-born architect James Hoban—who later designed the White House, which became the official home of US presidents. Both Hoban and Mills were Freemasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mills_%28architect%29

(Lodge Unknown)

F.A. Hayek on Corporatism and Conservatives


Great Freemasons: Christy Mathewson

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson 


Christopher "Christy" Mathewson (August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1925), nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He was among the most dominant pitchers of his (or any) era and ranks in the all-time top-10 in major pitching categories such as wins, shutouts, and ERA. In 1936, Mathewson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Mathewson

(Architect Lodge 519, NY)

Isaiah 10:1-2


Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah 10:1-2