Arthur
Willard Pryor (September 22, 1870 – June 18, 1942) was a trombone
virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific
composer of band music, his best known composition being "The Whistler
and His Dog". In later life, he was an American Democratic Party
politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New
Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.
was a trombone
virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific
composer of band music, his best known composition being "The Whistler
and His Dog". In later life, he was an American Democratic Party
politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New
Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pryor
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
(Art by Adam Hughes)
Austin
Augustus King (September 21, 1802 – April 22, 1870), also known as
Austin A. King and Austin King, was an American lawyer, politician, and
military officer. A Democrat, he was the tenth Governor of Missouri and a
one-term United States Congressman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Augustus_King
(Richmond Lodge 57, MO)
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
Che Guevara, as quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
(Art by Howard Chaykin)
If
more politicians in this country were thinking about the next
generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the
United States and the world.
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson
Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of
the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the
elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist
in the 1950s. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from
November 4, 1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United
States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until his death on
May 30, 1989.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Pepper
(Jackson Lodge 1, Tallahassee, Florida)
The
ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to
exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he
may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his
natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.
No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings
into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and
bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither
showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy
and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.
Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise (1670)
(Art by Mitch Breitweiser)
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
James Cash Penney
James Cash Penney, Jr. (September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971) was an
American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded the J. C.
Penney stores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cash_Penney
(Initiated
into Wasatch Lodge No. 1 Free and Accepted Masons of Utah, on April 18,
1911. A member of both the Scottish and York Rites, Penney was
coroneted a 33rd Degree on October 16, 1945, and received the Gold
Distinguished Service Award by the General Grand Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, in Kansas City, Missouri in 1958.)
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647).
(Art by Alex Ross)
