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"it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man
because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing
but an American,"
Theodore Roosevelt
Alexander Hamilton
Be courageous.
I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as
your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Jefferson
The true test of a person’s belief in
the First Amendment is his willingness to fight and defend the free speech rights of those with whom he disagrees.
But if we are to be told by a foreign Power...what
we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.
George
Washington
After the chaos
and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
George W. Bush
"Statesmen my
dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon
which Freedom can securely stand. ... The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired
into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but
they will not obtain a lasting Liberty."
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
"Every post
is honorable in which a man can serve his country."
George Washington
"Knowledge
is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness."
George Washington
Determine never
to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may
be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
As a man is said
to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James Madison
He who is void
of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance
of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams
Character, in
the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
"Freedom had been hunted round the globe;
reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature
of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."
Thomas Paine
Sir Francis Bacon
From this day
forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse,
the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
To disbelieve
is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
Louis L'Amour
All the great
things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
We do not sit
as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas
When we, through our educational
culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control
their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Alan Keyes
It is easy to
take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney
The virtue of
justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
Every human being
has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names,
identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
Patriotism is
easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
Posterity: you
will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams
In all thy undertakings,
let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
Akhenaton
I've always tried
to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses,
I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.
Jesse Barfield
He that always
gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
To be free from
evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus
Much of the modern
resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with
the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the
pleasure of Another!
C. S. Lewis
All tyranny needs
to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
Prosperity is
the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
To avoid the
necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy
of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority
of the Federal Government.
Martin Van Buren
Small opportunities
are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
It's a job that's never started
that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Cease from anger,
and forsake wrath;
Do not fret--it only causes harm.
Psalms 37:8
Of
all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
Hard work spotlights the character
of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
The
brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson
The appearance of right oft leads
us wrong.
Horace
Never
ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
No government ever voluntarily
reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest
thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
Double,
no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours
was, in truth, a noble cause.
Ronald Reagan
Content thyself to be obscurely
good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
"... [T]hough individual oppression
may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter...."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No.
78
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own
reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
Conscience
is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
Our
Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought,
unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What seem our worst prayers may
really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from
a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C. S. Lewis
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon
the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of
mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet
there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to
the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir Winston Churchill
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is
impossible for the character to be established.
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear
right.
Terence
Anger so clouds the mind, that
it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elder
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead,
a better one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Admonish thy friends in secret,
praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus
Posterity:
you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams
The surest way to lose democracy
is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culature can long
survive the absence of transcent values and absolutes
Carl E.H. Henry
Imagination
has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.
Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum
You
should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Xi Zhi
A
pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman
Anyone
who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life
is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
For
it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ
the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
If any man wish to write in a
clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble
soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We
make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
Our
safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people
of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow
the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
The basis of a democratic state is
liberty.
It is easy to be brave from a
safe distance.
Politics [is] the art of achieving
the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwater
Lets
have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
Faithless is he that says farewell when
the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Politics and war are
remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
In framing a government
which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control
the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
Duty, honor, country:
Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying
point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create
hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Gen Douglas MacArthur
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can
be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
An armed society is
a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
One ought never to turn one's
back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly
and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill
All who think cannot
but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
A man is not finished
when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
Next to the right
of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which,
united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established
by the human race.
William Howard Taft
I must study politics
and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
No power on earth
has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John Jay
Practice rather than
preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability
then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Remember this: the
truly great leader overcomes all difficulties and campaigns and battles are nothing but a long series of difficulties to be
overcome. The lack of equipment, the lack of food, the lack of this or that are only excuses: the real leader displays his
quality in his triumphs over adversity, however great it may be.
Gen George C. Marshall
It was settled by
the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President
of the United States
Andrew Jackson
Far and away the best
prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
The education of a
man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Arms discourage and
keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue
were [the law-abiding] deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine
All virtue is summed
up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Disciplining yourself
to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher
The society which
scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity
will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
We are born to action;
and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush Limbaugh
In framing a government
which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control
the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
You are never too
old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
A government that
is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry M. Goldwater
While we are guarding
the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
Gen Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
Those who own the
country ought to govern it.
John Jay
The first requisite
of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do your duty in all
things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
When one ceases from
conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out
of him.
Charles Horton Cooley
God grants liberty
only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster
Do not separate text
from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,
bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
That government is
best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
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