Happy New Year from National Write Your Congressman

Happy New Year from National Write Your Congressman.  We wish you all the blessings 2012 can bring.

For this year's celebration we would like to give you some famous quotes and toasts given at the stroke of midnight.

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow" -Einstein

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man" -Benjamin Franklin

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past.  Nothing is as far away as one minute ago" -Jim Bishop

"The object of a New year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we should have a new soul" -G.K. Chesterton

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this-To rise above the little things" -John Burroughs

"We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter is New Year's Day" -Edith L. Pierce

"To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure" -Ben Jonson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year" -Emerson

"The bad news is time flies.  The good news is you're the pilot" -Michael Altshuler