Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Chapter 4.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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John Milton
Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).
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The Brookings
On December 8, 1927, one of the United States’ oldest think tanks was founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings. Called the Brookings Institution, it would provide a blueprint for future work by research and advocacy organizations in the modern era.
On this date in 1974, a plebiscite abolished the monarchy in Greece.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Maj. Gen. Lafayette
On December 7, 1776, the Marquis de Lafayette arranged to enter the American military as a major general. On the same date in 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
The 1941 date marks, of course, “the day that will live in infamy,” when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
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Slavery, Finland, Lolita
On December 6, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, banning slavery in all states and territories.
In 1917 on this date, Finland declared independence from Russia.
Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita on the Sixth of December in 1953, and would soon find himself embroiled in censorship and related publishing difficulties, though with no trouble in the United States when it was eventually published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1958.
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W. F. Lloyd
There may be a certain amount of convenience in having a timepiece in every room of a house; still the convenience of the first, that is, the importance of having one, is probably greater than that of all the rest put together. So, a person who has one house may wish to have a second, but still the want of the second is not equal to that of the first.
William F. Lloyd, “A Lecture on the Notion of Value as Distinguished Not Only From Utility, but also from Value in Exchange” (University of Oxford, 1833). This lecture is an early explication of the principle of diminishing marginal utility, a central concept in economics. The formal statements of the notion were published by other economists from 1870 on.
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Prohibition Ends
On December 5, 1933, nationwide alcohol Prohibition in the United States ended after Utah became the 36th U.S. state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75 percent of states needed to enact the amendment that overturned the 18th.
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Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie, as quoted in Madame Curie: A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116.
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Townhall: Obama’s New Rite
Our lame duck president seems intent on making waves on his way out of the pond. Not all those waves seem designed to flood the world with freedom. Click on over to Townhall, for the latest affront to freedom and the American Dream.
- USA Today: Obama supports registering women for military draft
- Business Insider: Congress kills plan forcing women to register for the military draft
- Townhall: House Passes 2017 Defense Bill Without Controversial Draft Provision
- New York Times: Senate Votes to Require Women to Register for the Draft
- Resistance News: Women and Draft Registration
- CNN: Obama signs onto women registering for Selective Serviceo
- NNOMY: House votes down proposal to defund the Selective Service System
- New York Times: Obama’s embrace of drone strikes will be a lasting legacy