Vilfredo Pareto - ThisIsCommonSense.org

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
Vilfredo Pareto, Manual of Political Economy (1927, Ann S. Schwier, trans., 1971), p. 90.

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Today in Freedom

A series of unofficial truces occurred across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas in 1914. The image, at top, illustrates the event: “British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches” with a sub caption explaining “Saxons and Anglo-Saxons fraternising on the field of battle at the season of peace and goodwill: Officers and men from the German and British trenches meet and greet one another — A German officer photographing a group of foes and friends.” Originally published in The Illustrated London News, January 9, 1915.

On Christmas Day in 1776, George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River at night to attack, the next day, the Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey.

United States President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans on Christmas Day in 1868.