[Stonewall Jackson]

Here's another good one from Teddy:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[Feiny]

I grew up near Manassas and toured the battlefield at Bull Run many times.

"There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!"

[JustAmy]

On this day in White House History:

May 16, 1797

President John Adams, the second President, sends the first war message to Congress. The message recommends military preparations for a war against France, but war is not declared.



Born: October 30 1735 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Died: July 4, 1826 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts

July 4, 1826, he whispered his last words: "Thomas Jefferson survives."
But Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.

[nicollo]

Here's my favorite TR quotation: Upon viewing the Marcel Duchamp painting, "Nude Descending the Staircase," at the famed Armory Show of 1913, he remarked:

Obviously mammalian but not necessarily human