A perfect Valentine’s 2012 gift - remembering the 200th birthday of this beloved writer… http://bit.ly/n4mP7T

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference” - catch Churchill’s attitude from my new portrait art out today, here: http://bit.ly/lNrrBt

I researched 19th Century Illustration layouts for this literary “forget me not” which débuted in September. My hand-drawn “Nicholas Nickleby” quotation is planted within a chain of Forget-me-not flowers in my rather serious portrait. I don’t think the age of chivalry is past, so gifting the ACEO Art Card version to a special someone could ensure they have a heart that never hardens towards you. Why not get a few, seeing as life is made up of ever so many partings? But here’s what Charles Dickens wrote about the ultimate joy of meeting again:

“…I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know about Him… And he is now in Heaven, where we hope to go, and to meet each other after we are dead, and there be happy always together, you never can think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who he was and what he did…”

Quotation Source: Charles Dickens. 1849, in a literary work for his children. Marie Dickens, “The Life of Our Lord” (London, E.C.4, Great Britain: Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1934). “Life of Our Lord” (Nashville, TN: Oliver-Nelson Books, division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1991), pp. 1-2. William J. Federer, “America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations” (FAME Publishing, Inc., 820 S. MacArthur Blvd., Suite 105-220, Coppell, TX 75019-4214, 1994) Charles Dickens, p. 207.

Learning from history’s Presidents - I remember around 13 years old, how scared I was about a Nuclear War; quite rightly, it got pretty close in the 80’s. They wanted Ronald Reagan to freeze the arms buildup, but he didn’t trust the Russians. He said:

“…as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.”

He was right, the Cold War ended when the Russians threw their beliefs out; they didn’t need world revolution anymore. But Ronald Reagan wasn’t afraid to name and shame the ideology. He didn’t called Soviet Russia ‘extremist’ socialists, or ‘radicalized’ communists, he warned against ignoring:

“ …the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire…”

Today I suspect Ronald Reagan’s opponents would make up the word ‘Marxist-ophobia’ and accuse him of ‘hate speech’ against communists. Well, I’m glad to honor him with another place in my ‘Historic Heroes’ gallery with my new portrait and quotation, “Ronald Reagan Quotes – What History Teaches”!

One for the Gipper - This Ronald Reagan charcoal drawing portrait and quote is one of two brand new releases! The rest of this post, are the 40th President’s words from a 1983 address. Can you imagine how the mainstream-media and secular elites would deride this, today?

…Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. The evidence of this permeates our history and our government. The Declaration of Independence mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times. ‘In God We Trust’ is engraved on our coinage. The Supreme Court opens its proceedings with a religious invocation. And the members of Congress open their sessions with a prayer. I just happen to believe the schoolchildren of the United States are entitled to the same privileges as Supreme Court Justices and Congressmen… …The First Amendment never intended to require government to discriminate against religious speech…

Was he REALLY…? Facts about John Adams - One thing I despise is revisionist history; where a bunch of elitists with an agenda rewrite the past. Look up the current Wikipedia article on John Adams, and you’ll ‘learn’ that the 2nd President of the United States was “a Unitarian”, whose beliefs “excluded the divinity of Christ”. And from where have these Wiki scholars taken such citations? From sources such as… of course, the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society Biography and books penned in… the 1800’s? No, books written in the Swinging Sixties! In my online Historic Heroes art galley, I’ve released a new portrait of John Adams and there’s a special article ‘Uncover 7 Facts about John Adams’ in which I’ve quoted the man himself and posed seven questions about him, to which you yourself can find the answers. There are even word links to Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary; and by the way, that’s NOT one of those dictionaries in which they’ve recently ‘revised’ the true definitions!