I don't change the inside by squeezing on the outside. ~ Dale Garside /
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable,
to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and
lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson /
"We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at this time. If that side is strengthened, the other side will take care of itself. It is that side which is the foundation of all else, if the foundation be firm, the superstructure will stand." ~ Calvin Coolidge /
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle /
Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation." ~ Charles Finney 1873 /
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” ~ Frederic Bastiat /
Quotes from Thomas Jefferson /
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe - /
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - /
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. - /
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - /
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. - /
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. - /
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - /
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - /
Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - 1802 /
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. ~ Samuel Adams /
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."...Theodore Roosevelt
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