# November 19

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2003

    One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
   * selected by Kalki

## 2004

    Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. ~ Oprah Winfrey
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    In a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ~ Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" (delivered 19 November 1863)
   * proposed by MosheZadka

## 2006

    Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~ (became Poet Laureate that day)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2007

    It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. ~ James A. Garfield
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ~ James A. Garfield
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2009

    We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities. ~ Indira Gandhi (born 19 November 1917)
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2010

    Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. ~ James A. Garfield
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. ~ James A. Garfield
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open — to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.
* ~ Jack Welch ~

## 2013

* Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
* ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
   * proposed by Kalki for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address

## 2014

* First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.
* ~ Kailash Satyarthi ~
   * proposed by Nvvchar

## 2015

* Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from.
* ~ Jodie Foster ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2016

* I have always said that my whole public life was an experiment to determine whether an intelligent people would sustain a man in acting sensibly on each proposition that arose, and in doing nothing for mere show or demagogical effect.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* Sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. Let our people find a new meaning in the divine oracle which declares that "a little child shall lead them", for our own little children will soon control the destinies of the Republic.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
   * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

## 2018

* We do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence our children will not be divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. They will surely bless their fathers and their fathers' God that the Union was preserved, that slavery was overthrown, and that both races were made equal before the law. We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation. Is it not possible for us now to make a truce with time by anticipating and accepting its inevitable verdict? Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
   * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

## 2019

* You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
* ~ Dick Cavett ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.
* ~ Dick Cavett ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* I would rather be beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong.
* ~ James Garfield ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
* ~ Thomas Shadwell ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* Nothing is more uncertain than the result of any one throw; few things more certain than the result of many throws. When applied to human life, the law of averages exhibits many striking results.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
* ~ Dick Cavett ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

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## Suggestions

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. ~ Mikhail Kalinin (born November 19)
* 3 because battling the lures of religion with education is a powerful principle and ideology. Zarbon 06:44, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
** SOURCE: Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945 - Page 109 by Steven Merritt Miner - History - 2003
* 1 Kalki 18:42, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Every man loves what he is good at. ~ Thomas Shadwell
* 2 Zarbon 01:46, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 18:42, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
* Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 4. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
* Let suffrage be extended to all men of proper age, regardless of color. It may well be questioned whether the Negro does not understand the nature of our institutions better than the equally ignorant foreigner. He was intelligent enough to understand from the beginning of the war that the destiny of his race was involved in it. He was intelligent enough to be true to that Union which his educated and traitorous master was endeavoring to destroy. He came to us in the hour of our sorest need, and by his aid, under God, the Republic was saved.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 3.25. A bit political, but nice quote. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
* The elevation of the Negro race from slavery to the full rights of citizenship is the most important political change we have known since the adoption of the Constitution of 1787. NO thoughtful man can fail to appreciate its beneficent effect upon our institutions and people. It has freed us from the perpetual danger of war and dissolution. It has added immensely to the moral and industrial forces of our people. It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a relation which wronged and enfeebled both. It has surrendered to their own guardianship the manhood of more than 5,000,000 people, and has opened to each one of them a career of freedom and usefulness.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 3.25. A bit political, but nice quote. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
* There was no middle ground for the Negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen. The emancipated race has already made remarkable progress. With unquestioning devotion to the Union, with a patience and gentleness not born of fear, they have 'followed the light as God gave them to see the light'. They are rapidly laying the material foundations of self-support, widening their circle of intelligence, and beginning to enjoy the blessings that gather around the homes of the industrious poor. They deserve the generous encouragement of all good men. So far as my authority can lawfully extend they shall enjoy the full and equal protection of the Constitution.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 3.25. A bit long and political, but nice quote. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
* To grant suffrage to the black man in this country is not innovation, but restoration. It is a return to the ancient principles and practices of the Fathers.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 3.25. A bit political, but nice quote. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
* To give the ballot to the Negro will be no innovation, but a return to the old paths, a restoration of that spirit of liberty to which the sufferings and sacrifices of the Revolution gave birth.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 3.25. A bit political, but nice quote. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
* We have seen the white men betray the flag and fight to kill the Union; but in all that long, dreary war we never saw a traitor in a black skin. Our comrades escaping from the starvation of prison, fleeing to our lines by the light of the North star, never feared to enter the black man's cabin and ask for bread. In all that period of suffering and danger, no Union soldier was ever betrayed by a black man or woman. And now that we have made them free, so long as we live we will stand by these black allies. We will stand by them until the sun of liberty, fixed in the firmament of our Constitution, shall shine with equal ray upon every man, black or white, throughout the Union.
* ~ James A. Garfield ~
* 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 19:49, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
* Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
* ~ The Name of this Book is Secret ~
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* 2 ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:54, 18 November 2019 (UTC)