March 2

March 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ~ Dr. Seuss (born 2 March 1904)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." ~ Carl Schurz (born 2 March 1829)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America. ~ Russ Feingold (born 2 March 1953)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends! … So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known. ~ Dr. Seuss ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. ~ Paul Harvey
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at the sun. If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local. ~ Murray Rothbard (born 2 March 1926)
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on responses to the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza.


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss (attributed)
 * used 23 February 2004, selected by Kalki


 * Don’t give up! I believe in you all A person’s a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! ~ Dr. Seuss ~
 * used 13 March 2008, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
''I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.'' ~ Dr. Seuss ~
 * 3 Kalki 13:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

We have come to the point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. ~ Carl Schurz
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:51, 25 February 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions. ~ Russ Feingold
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? ~ Russ Feingold
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

If the history of wartime politics teaches us anything, it is that measures that seem just, or at least permissible, in a time of conflict, can have damaging and lasting repercussions. ~ Russ Feingold
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Dangers await only those who do not react to life. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

In our times, good relations benefit all. Any worsening of relations anywhere is a common loss. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same. ~ Jackson C. Frank
 * 2 Zarbon 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you. ~ John Irving, The World According to Garp (1978) (born 1942 March 2)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. ~ John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) (born 1942 March 2)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. ~ Peter Straub, Shadowland (1980) (born 1943 March 2)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Though Straub may have used this somewhere, it is actually a statement of Jesus Christ, as quoted in the Gospel of Thomas, saying 70. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. ~ Murray Rothbard, Making Economic Sense (1995)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 -- ო ~ #SheSaid 18:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.