February 12
2004
- If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ~ John F. Kennedy
- selected by Kalki
2005
- The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ~ Arthur Miller (recent death)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~ Abraham Lincoln (born 12 February 1809)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ~ Charles Darwin (born 12 February 1809)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ~ Abraham Lincoln (Birth date)- proposed by Liquidice5
- 3 Kalki 00:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
2 Kalki 23:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)but I would wish to extend it with "Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose" if it were to be used. - 3, with extension. InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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He defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered "No." I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master was worth anything? ~ Charles Darwin
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,
And the great price we pay for it full worth:
We have it only when we are half earth.
~ George Meredith (born February 12, 1828)
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.
~ George Meredith
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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I would not have believed such an inferno could open up on earth. Men died but they did not retreat. ~ Vasily Chuikov (born February 12)
- 3 Zarbon 04:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
- SOURCE: Europe in Our Time, 1914 to the Present - Page 571 by Robert Reinhold Ergang -Europe - 1948
- 2 Kalki 17:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
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He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward. - Julius Streicher
- 3 Zarbon 16:57, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 17:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC) The statement is a great one, but the speaker is a miserable fool and hypocrite, and cowardly in ways he cannot even perceive, and that is the Truth.
- Why would you judge the person? See, what you should be doing is judging the quotes, not the people who say them...this isn't opinionpedia, it's qotd...whether or not I like the people saying the quotes is beyond the point here. But, for the record, I don't judge any man as a coward or a fool. In fact, I don't believe in that word "coward". Anyone who can actually formulate a well-established thought such as this one is great to me. And I let that be my only guiding principle. If words are power, then judge words. - Zarbon 05:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)