# February 13

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2005

    In this moment, I need to be needed, With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked, In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted, 'Cause I love to be loved, I love to be loved. ~ Peter Gabriel (born 13 February 1950)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2006

    Life is what it is, and you take what's handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully you'll be successful, but I just don't spend too much time worrying about that. ~ Jerry Springer (born 13 February 1944)
   * proposed by User:Liquidice5

## 2007

    Every man's life (and … every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal … love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy. ~ Eleanor Farjeon (born 13 February 1881)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word! ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    He could not be captured, He could not be bought, His running was rhythm, His standing was thought; With one eye on sorrow And one eye on mirth, He galloped in heaven And gambolled on earthAnd only the poet With wings to his brain Can mount him and ride him Without any rein, The stallion of heaven, The steed of the skies, The horse of the singer Who sings as he flies. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

    Some say the Gods are just a myth but guess Who I've been dancing with... The Great God Pan is alive! ~ Mike Scott ~
   * proposed by Kalki for the first day of the ancient 3 day celebration of Lupercalia

## 2013

* In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
* ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* Mine is the sunlight, Mine is the morning Born of the one light Eden saw play. Praise with elation, Praise every morning, God's re-creation Of the new day!
* ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
* ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. We could justify any censorship only when the censors are better shielded against error than the censored.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the time came.
* ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Lying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique. Hitler, in Mein Kampf, advocated mendacity as a policy. … Nor is the lie direct the only means of falsehood. They all speak with a Nazi double meaning with which to deceive the unwary. … Before we accept their word at what seems to be its face value, we must always look for hidden meanings. … Besides outright false statements and those with double meanings, there are also other circumventions of truth in the nature of fantastic explanations and absurd professions. … Even Schacht showed that he, too, had adopted the Nazi attitude that truth is any story which succeeds. Confronted on cross-examination with a long record of broken vows and false words, he declared in justification — and I quote from the record: "I think you can score many more successes when you want to lead someone if you don't tell them the truth than if you tell them the truth." This was the philosophy of the National Socialists. When for years they have deceived the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue that habit of a lifetime in this dock? Credibility is one of the main issues of this trial. Only those who have failed to learn the bitter lessons of the last decade can doubt that men who have always played on the unsuspecting credulity of generous opponents would not hesitate to do the same now.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
* ~ George Meredith ~

## 2023

* When we went to school we were told that we were governed by laws, not men. As a result of that, many people think there is no need to pay any attention to judicial candidates because judges merely apply the law by some mathematical formula and a good judge and a bad judge all apply the same kind of law. The fact is that the most important part of a judge's work is the exercise of judgment and that the law in a court is never better than the common sense judgment of the judge that is presiding.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* We must not forget that in our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
   * proposed by bystander

## 2025

* Don't give up. You know it's never been easy. Don't give up. 'Cause I believe there's a place, There's a place where we belong.
* ~ Peter Gabriel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2026

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## Suggestions

Sweet the rain's new fall, Sunlit from heaven, Like the first dewfall On the first grass. Praise for the sweetness Of the wet garden Sprung in completeness Where his feet pass. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Dropt tears have hastened your decay And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
* —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
* 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. ~ Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
* —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
* 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC) (with a lean toward 4).
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. ~ William Shockley (born 1910 February 13)
* —This unsigned comment is by Bystander (talk • contribs) .
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 14:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* 3 bystander 22:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
* Civil liberties had their origin and must find their ultimate guaranty in the faith of the people. If that faith should be lost, five or nine men in Washington could not long supply its want.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* Juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.
* ~ Robert H. Jackson ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* Rest your head. You worry too much. It's going to be alright. When times get rough, You can fall back on us. Don't give up; Please don't give up.
* ~ Peter Gabriel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 12 February 2025 (UTC)