Good Morning!
Today is the birthday of Charles Evans Hughes (1862 – 1948) who said:
“No greater mistake can be made than to think that our
institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing
prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring
inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation.
The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of
political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The
selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of
governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse
and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. .. The peril of this
Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and
its hope!”
Finally, happy birthday to Mark Strand (1934 - ) who said:
“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
and
“We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.”
and
“Even this late it happens
the coming of love, the coming of light.
You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,
stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,
sending up warm bouquets of air.
Even this late the bones of the body shine
and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.”
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