Soul Food: Week of April 14, 2024

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values …

Sunday: I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind & sometimes against it, but we must sail, & not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendel Holmes

Monday: … [Union soldiers believed their cause & ultimate victory was God’s will] … But we equally believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred conviction that were opposite of ours, & we respected them as every man with a heart must respect those who give all for their belief.

Tuesday: To the strongest … belongs the empire. Alexander the Great

Wednesday: The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato

Thursday: Factions are a sign of illness in a party. Ernest Mandel

Friday: Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been & ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. Federalist 51

Saturday: It has always been the fate of republics to be destroyed by factions. Harper’s Weekly, 1864

Davd Soul