# February 6

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. ~ Isaac Newton
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005, 2006

    You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ~ Ronald Reagan (born 6 February 1911)
   * selected by Kalki (who erroneously selected it for both 2005 and 2006 because of a failure to check the existing records)

## 2007

    I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. ~ Babe Ruth (born 6 February 1895)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. ~ Ronald Reagan
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    One love, One heart, Let's get together And feel alright. ~ Bob Marley ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same... ~ Ronald Reagan
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security. ~ Ronald Reagan
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

    It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. ~ Babe Ruth
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
* ~ Aaron Burr ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2014

* Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
* ~ Babe Ruth ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable — the best site is "somewhere else entirely."
* ~ Gerard K. O'Neill ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.
* ~ Bob Marley ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* I acknowledge that my verdict will not remove the President from office. The results of this Senate Court will in fact be appealed to a higher court: the judgement of the American people. Voters will make the final decision, just as the President’s lawyers have implored. My vote will likely be in the minority in the Senate. But irrespective of these things, with my vote, I will tell my children and their children that I did my duty to the best of my ability, believing that my country expected it of me. I will only be one name among many, no more or less, to future generations of Americans who look at the record of this trial. They will note merely that I was among the senators who determined that what the President did was wrong, grievously wrong. We’re all footnotes at best in the annals of history. But in the most powerful nation on earth, the nation conceived in liberty and justice, that is distinction enough for any citizen.
* ~ Mitt Romney ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other. I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depths of suffering and the peaks of triumph. And I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* With the destructive power of today's weapons, keeping the peace is not just a goal; it's a sacred obligation. But maintaining peace requires more than sincerity and idealism — more than optimism and good will. As you know well, peace is a product of hard, strenuous labor by those dedicated to its preservation. It requires realism, not wishful thinking.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~

## 2023

* Americans don't go around carrying guns with the idea they're using them to influence other Americans. There's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

* We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2026

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## Suggestions

    DOB: Aaron Burr · Bob Marley · Gerard K. O'Neill · Ronald Reagan · Babe Ruth
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. ~ Aaron Burr (born February 6)
* 3 because enrichment of one's daily routine requires one to work when unnecessary and relax when work is being done. Sometimes, the shift in vice versa balances a stabilized regime. Zarbon 04:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 00:42, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
* My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC) but with a lean towards 1, though with a possibility of leaning toward 3, or more, sometime in the future, if it can be sufficiently very clearly presented in a humorous context.
* Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
* Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
* I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. … The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
* It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
* ~ Ronald Reagan ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 4 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.