Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
How contemporary are Moynihan and Reagan? Isn’t contemporary someone active today?
A point George. To me contemporary means since WW2, but it is a very inexact term.
Churchill
contemporary Ryan, current Cruz
Toynbee maybe?’
Sowell
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Marcus Tullius Cicero
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Hard to beat your first three, Donald–I, too, would go with Lincoln, Reagan, and Burke. (Great law firm masthead, eh?)
For the last one, just to be different, I’ll say Eric Voegelin. But h/t Pinky, Toynbee and Sowell would be first team, too, IMO.
. (Great law firm masthead, eh?)
You said it Frank! Burke’s father had been a notable attorney. Burke began the study of law but wisely gave it up to be a philosopher.