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Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. Walter Lippmann CORRUPTION 20020315
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Goethe TRUTH 20020316
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau TRUTH 20020316
There is not greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy TRUTH 20020316
When in doubt tell the truth. Mark Twain TRUTH 20020316
All that the South has ever desired was that the Union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth. Robert E. Lee FREEDOM 20020317
It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally. W. R. Inge GRACE 20020317
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. Alain de Lille PERCEPTION 20020317
The mind is always the dupe of the heart. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld LOGIC 20020317
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Benedict Spinoza HOPE 20020318
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Edmund Burke FEAR 20020318
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. Montaigne IGNORANCE 20020318
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. James Russell Lowell PURPOSE 20020318
Love truth, but pardon error. Voltaire FORGIVE 20020319
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent. Cornelius Tacitus HISTORY 20020319
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas à Kempis HYPOCRISY 20020319
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus RELATIVITY 20020319
I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, 'That which is everybody's business is nobody's business'. Izaak Walton PRIVACY 20020320
A good mind possesses a kingdom. Lucius Annaeus Seneca EDUCATION 20020320
Treat your friends like family and your family like friends. Cotton Mather LOVE 20020320
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks TRIALS 20020320
A fool must now and then be right, by chance. William Cowper FOLLY 20020321
Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. Samuel Butler ACTIONS 20020321
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason. Dag Hammarskjold VIRTUE 20020321
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. Martial TRUTH 20020321
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. Marcus Aurelius PURPOSE 20020322
Idleness and lack of occupation tend, nay are dragged towards evil. Hippocrates SLOTH 20020322
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus FULFILMENT 20020322
In adversity remember to keep an even mind. Horace EVEN-TEMPERED 20020322
In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon LOVE 20020323
Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer EDUCATION 20020323
Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri-Frédéric Amiel CHARM 20020323
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. Robert E. Lee FRIENDSHIP 20020323
Blest the man who possesses a keen intelligent mind. Aristophanes INTELLIGENCE 20020324
I never met a man I didn't like. Will Rogers FRIENDSHIP 20020324
Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvétius TRUTH 20020324
Abortion is Murder in the womb... A child is a gift from God. If you do not want him, give him to me. Mother Teresa ABORTION 20020324
I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct killing of the innocent child.... Mother Teresa ABORTION 20020325
Please don't kill the child. I want the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. Mother Teresa ABORTION 20020325
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. Euripides CONSCIENCE 20020325
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare GLUTTONY 20020325
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. William Wordsworth GRATITUDE 20020326
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. Euripides DILIGENCE 20020326
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle HUMOR 20020326
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Jonson ELOQUENCE 20020326
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France PERFECTION 20020327
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Henry David Thoreau BEAUTY 20020327
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec INDIVIDUALISM 20020327
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! Horace INITIATIVE 20020327
Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce LAW 20020328
Ice and iron cannot be welded. Robert Louis Stevenson COMPATIBILITY 20020328
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Alexander Pope WISDOM 20020328
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles WISDOM 20020328
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle FRIENDSHIP 20020329
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Ralph Waldo Emerson ABUNDANCE 20020329
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe CHILDREN 20020331
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. George Santayana CONSCIENCE 20020331
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven.... Sir Walter Scott LOVE 20020331
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides FRIENDSHIP 20020331
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift ABUNDANCE 20020401
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. Euripides MODERATION 20020401
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Alexander Pope LOGIC 20020401
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! Horace IMMEDIACY 20020401
Women and elephants never forget an injury. Saki FORGIVENESS 20020402
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. Charles Lamb DEBT 20020402
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. John Ruskin EDUCATION 20020402
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington TYRANNY 20020402
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Carrie Chapman Catt CUSTOMS 20020403
A politician...one that would circumvent God. William Shakespeare POLITICS 20020403
As he brews, so shall he drink. Ben Jonson CONSEQUENCES 20020403
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser CHRISTMAS 20020403
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silvermantled plains. Edmund H. Sears CHRISTMAS 20020404
To be a wellfavoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. William Shakespeare HERITAGE 20020404
We must scrunch or be scrunched. Charles Dickens WAR 20020404
Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? Alexander Pope KNOWLEDGE 20020404
A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? William Wordsworth LIFE 20020405
Second thoughts are ever wiser. Euripides WISDOM 20020405
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson FRIENDSHIP 20020405
The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty]. Homer APPEALS 20020405
Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path. Mencius VIRTUE 20020406
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. George Berkeley TRUTH 20020406
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. Pierre de Ronsard IMMEDIACY 20020406
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees; As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. Anonymous HABITS 20020406
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. Saint Augustine GRACE 20020407
There is no road or ready way to virtue. Sir Thomas Browne VIRTUE 20020407
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt HERITAGE 20020407
Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. William Shakespeare TRUST 20020407
Bore, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce BOREDOM 20020408
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Seneca DILIGENCE 20020408
Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton TYRANNY 20020408
Convention is the ruler of all. Pindar FREEDOM 20020408
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson LOVE 20020409
Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce CYNICISM 20020409
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. Philip Dormer Stanhope ADVICE 20020410
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus PERSISTENCE 20020410
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci DILIGENCE 20020410
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr. COMMITMENT 20020410
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. Voltaire GOVERNMENT 20020411
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. Miguel de Cervantes FREEDOM 20020411
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. William Congreve IMMEDIACY 20020411
While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero HOPE 20020411
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. Edmund Burke CHARACTER 20020412
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute - he simply does what is right. Mencius CHARACTER 20020412
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. Oliver Goldsmith TRADITION 20020412
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. Samuel Butler PRIDE 20020413
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Jane Austen FRIENDSHIP 20020413
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Ludwig van Beethoven ART 20020413
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Mary Wollstonecraft JUSTICE 20020413
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory -- nothing so expensive as glory. Sydney Smith HUMILITY 20020414
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge BALANCE 20020414
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Mark Twain CONVICTION 20020414
It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the sol Charles M. Province WAR 20020414
Sir, I have not yet begun to fight! John Paul Jones WAR 20020415
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Walter Scott WAR 20020415
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire WAR 20020415
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower WAR 20020415
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton TRUTH 20020416
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne CREATION 20020416
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson TRUTH 20020416
Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn HUMOR 20020416
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it. John Owen TEMPTATION 20020419
To identify one's self with the truth is to place one's self in the heart of a storm from which there is no escape for life. D. M. Patton COURAGE 20020419
A hard beginning maketh a good ending. John Heywood PERSISTENCE 20020419
One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory. Ronald Reagan ECONOMIST 20020419
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume FREEDOM 20020420
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. Jonathan Swift HUMOR 20020420
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Thomas Moore TRUTH 20020420
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions. Dwight Morrow HYPOCRISY 20020420
I see and approve better things, but follow worse. Ovid HYPOCRISY 20020421
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. Titus Maccius Plautus PRUDENCE 20020421
Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade. William Blake ART 20020421
Vengeance is lawful and virtuous so far as it tends to the prevention of evil. Thomas Aquinas VENGEANCE 20020421
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st. John Milton HYPOCRISY 20020422
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action. Pindar HYPOCRISY 20020422
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. George Herbert HYPOCRISY 20020422
What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right. Julius Paulus JUSTICE 20020422
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. William Shakespeare HYPOCRISY 20020423
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. Mark Twain ACTION 20020423
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler TRUTH 20020423
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain TRUTH 20020423
Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature. Lucan TRUTH 20020424
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Leonardo da Vinci TRUTH 20020424
... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Alexis de Tocqueville TRUTH 20020424
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. Henry David Thoreau TRUTH 20020424
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires selftrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. Amos Bronson Alcott EDUCATION 20020425
A faithful friend is the medicine of life. The Apocrypha FRIENDSHIP 20020425
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. William Shakespeare POWER 20020425
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli HYPOCRISY 20020425
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. Confucius CHARACTER 20020426
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus ENVY 20020426
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Cicero FREEDOM 20020426
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton POWER 20020426
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.' Thurgood Marshall RACISM 20020427
No man has a right, in America, to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Wendell Willkie TOLERANCE 20020427
A liberal is a socialist who won't admit it. Warren Robbins SOCIALISM 20020427
We grow in character through service. Augustus Thomas SERVICE 20020428
Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. G.K. Chesterton TRADITION 20020428
We are perishing for want of wonder, not want of wonders. G.K. Chesterton WORSHIP 20020428
I have found a certain type calls himself a liberal...Now I always thought I was a liberal. I was terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a rightwing, conservative extremist... John Wayne LIBERALS 20020429
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. George Pataki GOVERNMENT 20020429
Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law? Calvin Coolidge INTEGRITY 20020429
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... This is not time for apathy or complacency. Martin Luther King Jr. DILIGENCE 20020429
Those who will not be governed by God, will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn CHARACTER 20020430
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time... Abraham Lincoln MORALITY 20020430
Benevolence is the characteristic of the righteous descendants of the seed of Abraham, our father. Torah GENEROSITY 20020430
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill TRUTH 20020430
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. Cornelius Tacitus GOVERNMENT 20020501
I believe in the specifically American idea of government...a Federal government not in possession of any general and unexpressed sovereignty but carefully limited to powers expressly granted it by a Constitution which was not of its own making... J. Gresham Machen ? 20020501
We expect our leaders to be better than we are... and they should be, or why are we following them? Paul Harvey ? 20020501
In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Alexander Solzhenitsyn TRUTH 20020501
The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke ? 20020502
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. Thomas Paine ? 20020502
Who to himself is law, no law doth need. Arthur Chapman SELF-CONTROL 20020502
When you give purely, the honor comes in the giving, and that is honor enough. Scott O'Grady GENEROSITY 20020503
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live. Calvin Coolidge TRUTH 20020503
Common sense is so common. Voltaire ? 20020503
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Thomas Paine ? 20020503
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost LIBERALISM 20020504
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle HABITS 20020504
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. Margaret Thatcher LAW 20020504
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equitability -- the law of nature, and of nations. Edmund Burke ? 20020504
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud SMOKING 20020505
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling ? 20020505
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth.... Truth telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar J. Edgar Hoover TRUTH 20020505
Liberalism not only legitimizes envy, jealousy, ignorance, and the lack of moral standards, but it also makes these attributes virtues. Drake Raft LIBERALISM 20020507
Duty then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee DUTY 20020508
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained. Russell Kirk POLITICS 20020508
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. TRUTH 20020508
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. Francois Fenelon HYPOCRISY 20020508
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Robert G. Ingersoll COURAGE 20020509
In the political and social discussions of the day, God's law has ceased to be regarded as a factor that deserves to be reckoned with at all. J. Gresham Machen FAITH 20020509
Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but what happens inside your house. Babara Bush FAMILY 20020510
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches. Catherine of Siena MONEY 20020510
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it. Louis Pasteur HYPOCRISY 20020510
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Caleb Colton FREEDOM 20020511
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. Edmund Burke FREEDOM 20020511
The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taPatrick J. Buchanan ? 20020511
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor. Theodore Roosevelt ? 20020511
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain KINDNESS 20020512
Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends. Benjamin Disraeli EDUCATION 20020512
You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. Aristippus TRUTH 20020512
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever. Jefferson Davis ? 20020512
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman ? 20020513
The government ought to have in the treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. Horatio Bunce ? 20020513
My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve. J.C. Watts ? 20020513
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage to the sun. Sir Thomas Browne ? 20020513
A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes. Woodrow Wilson ? 20020514
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning ? 20020514
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. Theodore Roosevelt TRUTH 20020514
God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. Henry Ward Beecher ? 20020514
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election ... It adds up to a preconcieved plan to destroy the economic and sSen. George W. Malone ? 20020515
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men together in a society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frederic Bastiat ? 20020515
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson HABITS 20020515
Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion; these are the things that count in life. Scott O'Grady ? 20020515
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas ? 20020516
To do for the world more than the world does for you that is success. Henry Ford ? 20020516
The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it! Gerard Groote ? 20020516
A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn't take long before everyone knows. C.S. Lewis TRUTH 20020516
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson CHARACTER 20020517
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln CHARACTER 20020517
Integrity is its own reward. Laura Schlessinger CHARACTER 20020517
Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. J.C. Watts CHARACTER 20020517
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain ? 20020518
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf LEADERSHIP 20020518
If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost. Yogi Berra ? 20020518
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. Theodore Roosevelt POLITICS 20020518
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken POLITICS 20020519
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. Ambrose Pierce POLITICS 20020519
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. Thomas Aquinas POLITICS 20020520
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women of all classes detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed. T.S. Eliot ? 20020520
The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. P. J. O'Rourke LIBERALISM 20020520
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. Douglas MacArthur PATRIOTISM 20020521
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson PATRIOTISM 20020521
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. Abraham Lincoln PATRIOTISM 20020521
So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants. Tacitus PATRIOTISM 20020521
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George S. Patton PATRIOTISM 20020522
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. George William Curtis PATRIOTISM 20020522
We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff, and foreign policy; but we cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure… Theodore Roosevelt HONESTY 20020522
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. George Berkeley TRUTH 20020523
It is the highest form of self respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. John J. McCloy ? 20020523
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. Billy Graham RELIGION 20020523
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his understanding, and makes his mind paralytic. Edmund Burke ? 20020523
The end and aim of all education is the development of character. Francis Parker EDUCATION 20020524
Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln ? 20020524
Pride is a weird disease. It makes everyone sick, except the person who has it. James Dobson PRIDE 20020525
Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium. Paul Harvey RELIGION 20020525
Let not your children have reason to curse you for prostrating those institutions and giving up those rights which your fathers delivered unto you. Matthias Burnet ? 20020526
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Winston Churchill TRUTH 20020529
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. C. L. De Montesquieu ? 20020529
Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity… Theodore Roosevelt HONESTY 20020529
It is by this tribunal that statesmen [are tried] not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence but upon the enlarged and solid principles of morality. Edmund Burke ? 20020530
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. Clare Booth Luce ? 20020530
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. G.K. Chesterton MEDIA 20020531
He who wants to know people should study their excuses. Friedrich Hebbel ? 20020531
He (Decius) soon discovered that it was impossible to replace that greatness on a permanent basis without restoring public virtue, ancient principles and manners, and the oppressed majesty of the laws. Edward Gibbon ? 20020531
'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. Theodore Roosevelt TRUTH 20020601
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill COURAGE 20020601
The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it. Horatio Seymour POLITICS 20020601
We must wrestle with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction. Sigmund Freud SEX 20020602
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley SEX 20020602
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. Oscar Wilde EDUCATION 20020602
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community Theodore Roosevelt ? 20020603
One realizes that one of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does. Eric Hoffer YOUTH 20020603
The most important thing in acting is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, you're in. Samuel Goldwyn HONESTY 20020603
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if anything is to be got by it. Charles Dickens HONESTY 20020604
Let us 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 FAITH 20020604
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. George Shultz RESOLVE 20020604
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Goethe IGNORANCE 20020605
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. Pierre Corneille DUTY 20020605
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Henry Fielding DUTY 20020605
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. C.S. Lewis POLITICS 20020606
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. Juvenal HONOR 20020606
The relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin POWER 20020606
Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide. Archibald Cox POLITICS 20020607
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen TRUTH 20020607
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire HYPOCRISY 20020608
To the extent that self government advances, public opinion and the shaping of it become the preoccupation of elites and would be elites. Jeffrey Bell POLITICS 20020608
Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. C.S. Lewis VIRTUE 20020608
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. T.B. Macaulay POWER 20020612
Celebrity itself is indifferent to moral character. Dick Keyes VIRTUE 20020612
Men willingly believe what they wish. Julius Caesar TRUTH 20020612
The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims upon them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.C.S. Lewis VIRTUE 20020612
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace VIRTUE 20020612
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. William James ACCOUNTABILITY 20020613
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light. William Shakespeare TIME 20020613
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster FREEDOM 20020613
Man, in public trust, will much oftener act in such a manner as to render him unworthy of being any longer trusted, than in such a manner as to make him obnoxious to legal punishment. Alexander Hamilton POLITICS 20020614
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. John Randolph WAR 20020614
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde FRIENDSHIP 20020614
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous, is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. C.S. Lewis HYPOCRISY 20020615
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. Virgil RESOLVE 20020615
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Saint Thomas Aquinas SALVATION 20020615
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. Samuel Johnson CHARACTER 20020616
The strongest of all warriors are these two; Time and Patience. Leo Tolstoy TIME 20020616
Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. Abraham Lincoln WAR 20020616
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. T.S. Eliot WAR 20020617
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. Thucydides WAR 20020617
It is well that war is so terrible we shouldn't grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee WAR 20020617
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. Andrew B. Law WAR 20020618
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. John A. Fisher WAR 20020618
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. Will Rogers WAR 20020619
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. Richard M. Nixon WAR 20020619
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. Karl von Clausewitz WAR 20020620
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention. Saint Thomas Aquinas WAR 20020620
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. Arthur Godfrey TAXES 20020621
Capital punishment is when Washington comes up with a new tax. Van Panopoulos TAXES 20020621
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. Mark Twain TAXES 20020622
The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. Ronald Reagan TAXES 20020622
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H.L. Mencken TAXES 20020623
Congress will ever exercise their powers to levy as much money as the people can pay. They will not be restrained from direct taxes by the consideration that necessity does not require them. John Smith TAXES 20020623
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir I. Lenin TAXES 20020624
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close. Sun Tzu WAR 20020624
However much we gain by what we call the advance in civilization, something has to be surrendered... The empty soul which feels its emptiness seeks to put itself in a state of irresponsibility. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen SALVATION 20020624
(It) is nothing but a conduit through which prefabricated din can flow into our homes...news items, mutually irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, b Aldous Huxley MEDIA 20020625
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. Will Durant RELIGION 20020625
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. C.S. Lewis SATAN 20020626
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. Henri-Frédéric Amiel TRUTH 20020626
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men; those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. José Martí GOODNESS 20020627
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you Robert Louis Stevenson LIFE 20020627
For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed? C.S. Lewis SOCIALISM 20020628
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. William Cullen Bryant TRUTH 20020628
I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin Disraeli POWER 20020629
No one on earth has any way left but upward. Alexander Solzhenitsyn SIN 20020629
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass VIRTUE 20020630
Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. Laurence Sterne COURAGE 20020630
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. Alexander Pope HOPE 20020701
Truth prevails for those who live in truth. Vaclav Havel TRUTH 20020701
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. John Milton FREEDOM 20020701
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust! Henry Clay CHANCE 20020702
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell. C.S. Lewis GOD 20020702
Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LIFE 20020703
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. William Shakespeare LOVE 20020703
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Farquhar Tupper SILENCE 20020704
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced Even a proverb is no Proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it. John Keats EXPERIENCE 20020708
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde EXPERIENCE 20020708
Edible, adj. good to eat...as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Bierce MORTALITY 20020708
Only the educated are free. Epictetus EDUCATION 20020709
Virtue, even attempted virtue, brings light; indulgence brings fog. C.S. Lewis VIRTUE 20020709
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. John Milton FREEDOM 20020710
Christians must learn again what Christians have always known: how to live without immediate hopes in the world. T. R. Milford HOPE 20020710
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic. Joseph Story GUNS 20020711
...[V]irtue is formed by good laws, and undermined by bad ones. Larry P. Arnn VIRTUE 20020711
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton FREEDOM 20020712
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech. William Shakespeare WISDOM 20020712
Eros ceases to be a devil only when it ceases to be a god. C.S. Lewis SEX 20020713
Duty cannot exist without faith. Benjamin Disraeli FAITH 20020713
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be wellnigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. Moliere INTEGRITY 20020714
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. William Ralph Inge TYRANNY 20020714
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak. James Russell Lowell COURAGE 20020715
A comprehended god is no god. St. John Chrysostom GOD 20020715
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac FREEDOM 20020715
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. Theodore Roosevelt EVIL 20020716
Arrogance never admits its mistakes. It just keeps making them. J.R. Nyquist HUMILITY 20020716
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke INNOVATION 20020717
Anger's the anaesthetic of the mind. C.S. Lewis ANGER 20020717
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein GOD 20020718
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon INNOVATION 20020718
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. John Milton FREEDOM 20020719
If all men were just, there would be no need of valor. Agesilaus VALOR 20020719
Some people complain that God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses on thorns. Anonymous OPTIMISM 20020720
As the family offers us the first step beyond selflove, so this [patriotism] offers us the first step beyond family selfishness. C.S. Lewis PATRIOTISM 20020723
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain FRIENDSHIP 20020723
Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful. Goethe FREEDOM 20020724
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon READING 20020724
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. Elton Trueblood DEMOCRACY 20020725
Prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Bierce PREJUDICE 20020725
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen FREEDOM 20020726
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue. Samuel Adams VIRTUE 20020726
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. Samuel Johnson VARIETY 20020727
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. William Cowper THOUGHT 20020727
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn CHARACTER 20020728
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Mark Twain HUMOR 20020728
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly, if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. C.S. Lewis LOGIC 20020729
...art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation. Ingmar Bergman ART 20020729
Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is nor yet so good a Christian. Robert Louis Stevenson PRIDE 20020729
A post-Christian man is not a Pagan; you might as well think that a married woman recovers her virginity by divorce. He is cut off from the Christian past and therefore doubly from the Pagan past. C.S. Lewis PAGAN 20020730
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon COMPETENCE 20020730
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of patriotism.... Andrew Jackson VIRTUE 20020731
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. Henry David Thoreau VIRTUE 20020731
Where there is no law there is no freedom. John Locke FREEDOM 20020801
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray ENDURANCE 20020801
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! Anne Frank COURAGE 20020802
Contentment is the best of all riches - and it's not taxed! Anonymous TAXES 20020802
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. Gerald Barzan TAXES 20020803
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt LAW 20020803
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer PERSPECTIV 20020804
He makes no friend who never made a foe. Tennyson FRIENDSHIP 20020804
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. St. Augustine VIRTUE 20020807
For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. C.S. Lewis FAITH 20020808
Let every action of mine be something beautiful for God. Mother Teresa DEVOTION 20020808
Before you rule the world in the Christian and Gospel manner, be sure to fill it with true Christians. And that you will never do. Martin Luther CHRISTIANS 20020809
Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necJames Wilson FREEDOM 20020809
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Titus Maccius Plautus PATIENCE 20020810
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. Theodore Roosevelt LIFE 20020810
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred, Lord Tennyson WISDOM 20020811
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein SCIENCE 20020811
Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Jewish proverb VIRTUE 20020812
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon PATIENCE 20020812
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Spinoza PEACE 20020813
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain EXAMPLE 20020813
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. George Eliot SILENCE 20020814
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Brooks Adams FRIENDSHIP 20020814
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. Ovid HONESTY 20020815
The descent to hell is easy, and those who begin by worshipping power soon worship evil. C.S. Lewis POWER 20020815
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. Sophocles SIN 20020816
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. Jean de La Fontaine FATHERS 20020816
No, when the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. Robert Browning CONSCIENCE 20020817
Before the problem of the creative writer, analysis must lay down its arms. Sigmund Freud WRITING 20020817
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson APPLAUSE 20020818
Many receive advice, few profit by it. Publilius Syrus ADVICE 20020818
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.... It is a part of nature. Herbert Spencer PROGRESS 20020819
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill WISDOM 20020819
Tempt not a desperate man. William Shakespeare TEMPTATION 20020820
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein RELIGION 20020820
Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. HISTORY 20020821
Saying is one thing and doing is another. Montaigne HYPOCRISY 20020825
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell HYPOCRISY 20020826
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Mark Twain TRUTH 20020826
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. William Shakespeare FASHION 20020827
Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. Francis Bacon NATURE 20020827
'Hope' is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all Emily Dickinson HOPE 20020828
A man becomes the creature of his uniform. Napoleon WAR 20020828
Truth is great and its effectiveness endures. Ptahhotpe TRUTH 20020829
Virtue is like precious odors most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Francis Bacon VIRTUE 20020829
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. John Pomfret WISDOM 20020830
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. Confucius VIRTUE 20020830
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams EDUCATION 20020831
To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. John Milton WISDOM 20020831
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. Sir Richard Steele AGE 20020901
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold WISDOM 20020901
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain CREATION 20020902
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney THOUGHT 20020902
Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds.... William Shakespeare LOVE 20020903
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. Thucydides VALOR 20020903
Look with favor upon a bold beginning. Virgil BOLDNESS 20020904
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. Thomas Hardy VIRTUE 20020905
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. Emily Dickinson DEATH 20020905
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon WISDOM 20020906
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself. Sir Thomas Browne ? 20020906
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson LIFE 20020907
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain SHAME 20020907
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare VIRTUE 20020908
For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent. Quintilian EMOTION 20020910
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Herbert Spencer LOGIC 20020911
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler GREED 20020911
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last. Jules Renard OPTIMISM 20020912
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. John Milton CHILDHOOD 20020912
If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us. Junius VIRTUE 20020913
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Lord Byron FREEDOM 20020913
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor. Ulysses Simpson Grant LABOR 20020914
The things we admire in men; kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest; sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotisms, and selfinterest are John Steinbeck ? 20020915
Bravery never goes out of fashion. William Makepeace Thackeray VALOR 20020915
I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it. Jean Genet VIRTUE 20020916
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato EDUCATION 20020916
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain SIN 20020917
Thoughts unexpressed sometimes fall back dead, but even God himself can't kill them when they are said. Anonymous GOSSIP 20020917
Beware the ides of March. William Shakespeare MARCH 20020918
Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much. Ben Jonson TRUTH 20020918
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. Lew Wallace TEMPTATION 20020919
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift VISION 20020919
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus ? 20020920
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. François Rabelais WISDOM 20020920
The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld PRIDE 20020921
Veracity is the heart of morality. Thomas Henry Huxley TRUTH 20020921
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. John Milton ? 20020922
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis RELIGION 20020925
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. Euripides DILIGENCE 20020926
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. Publilius Syrus ? 20020926
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop FULFILMENT 20020927
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius ? 20020927
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Sir Thomas Browne MAN 20020928
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day. Arthur Wellesley DILIGENCE 20020928
There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips. Sir Walter Scott DILIGENCE 20020929
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson CURIOSITY 20020929
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. John Stuart Mill CERTAINTY 20020930
Speech is the small change of Silence. George Meredith SILENCE 20020930
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. Milan Kundera HISTORY 20021001
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. Peter De Vries INTELLIGENCE 20021001
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. C.S. Lewis JESUS 20021002
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself. F. A. Hayek AUTHORITY 20021002
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. Pascal AUTHORITY 20021003
The superior man . . . does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. Confucius AUTHORITY 20021003
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God. Francis Schaeffer AUTHORITY 20021004
The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long. William Shakespeare AUTHORITY 20021005
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. George Herbert AUTHORITY 20021005
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. Voltaire AUTHORITY 20021006
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. Jean Jacques Rousseau AUTHORITY 20021006
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man. St. Bernard of Clairvaux AUTHORITY 20021007
There is measure in all things. Horace PRIDE 20021007
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson PRIDE 20021010
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with use. Washington Irving PRIDE 20021010
I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee PRIDE 20021011
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw PRIDE 20021011
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. PRIDE 20021012
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare PRIDE 20021012
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn PRIDE 20021013
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. Hesiod PRIDE 20021013
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus PRIDE 20021014
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; ... begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonRalph Waldo Emerson REGRET 20021014
It is after you have realised that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power ... Christianity begins to talk. When you are sick, you will listen to the doctor. C.S. Lewis SIN 20021015
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. F. A. Hayek FREEDOM 20021015
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace DILIGENCE 20021016
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill OPTIMISM 20021016
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is. William Shakespeare GREED 20021017
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. Alfred, Lord Tennyson OPTIMISM 20021017
Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts. Charles Sanders Peirce TRUTH 20021018
Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage. Robert E. Lee OPTIMISM 20021018
Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci OPTIMISM 20021019
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. Robert Browning OPTIMISM 20021019
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills.... C.S. Lewis WRITING 20021020
Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. Andrew Fletcher GUNS 20021020
Cautious, careful people, always casting around to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. Susan B. Anthony BOLDNESS 20021021
The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise ... of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment. James Q. Wilson VIRTUE 20021021
No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly. Horace PRIDE 20021022
The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert FRIENDSHIP 20021022
What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven. F. Hoelderlin AMBITION 20021023
The great tragedy of Science the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Henry Huxley TRUTH 20021023
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society. Pope John Paul II VIRTUE 20021027
Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right...when the governor...makes not the law, but his will, the rule. John Locke TYRANNY 20021027
The act of cowardice is all that matters; the emotion of fear is, in itself, no sin. C.S. Lewis COURAGE 20021028
Whatever claims reverence risks ridicule. C.S. Lewis REVERENCE 20021028
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. Daniel Webster JUSTICE 20021029
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. Horace COMMUNITY 20021029
If every person has the right to defend even by force his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Frederic Bastiat FREEDOM 20021030
When you ask God to send you trials, you may be sure your prayer will be granted. Léon Bloy TRIALS 20021030
Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news. William Shakespeare HONESTY 20021031
There is no legitimate religion apart from truth. John Calvin TRUTH 20021031
It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither. C.S. Lewis LIFE 20021101
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. George S. Patton DILIGENCE 20021101
That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson LIFE 20021102
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James LIFE 20021102
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride and fear. Horace Mann GENEROSITY 20021103
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. Moliere VIRTUE 20021104
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. Horace VIRTUE 20021104
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you will enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience. That will be worth everything else. Robert E. Lee VIRTUE 20021105
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them. Robert Louis Stevenson VIRTUE 20021105
Saint, n. a dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce VIRTUE 20021106
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. A.W. Tozer VIRTUE 20021106
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people. James Montgomery Boice VIRTUE 20021107
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. Jean de La Bruyère TRUTH 20021107
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Brooks Adams TRUTH 20021107
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins. W. E. B. Du Bois TRUTH 20021107
Charity begins at home. Terence TRUTH 20021108
Appearances often are deceiving. Aesop TRUTH 20021108
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides TRUTH 20021112
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Brother Lawrence TRUTH 20021113
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. Max Lerner TRUTH 20021113
As the free press develops, the paramount point is whether the journalist, like the scientist or scholar, puts truth in the first place or in the second. Walter Lippmann TRUTH 20021114
Every cause produces more than one effect. Herbert Spencer LEADERSHIP 20021114
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. Havelock Ellis LEADERSHIP 20021115
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana LEADERSHIP 20021115
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Sir Isaac Newton LEADERSHIP 20021116
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. William Shakespeare HONESTY 20021116
[T]he man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. Elbert Hubbard LEADERSHIP 20021117
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. Sun Tzu WAR 20021117
Nearly all that a boy reads...will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact. C.S. Lewis POLITICS 20021118
Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right. Josiah C. Wedgwood POLITICS 20021118
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. William James POLITICS 20021119
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience. James Russell Lowell POLITICS 20021119
Do not block the way of inquiry. Charles Sanders Peirce POLITICS 20021120
Criticism is easy, art is difficult. Destouches CRITICISM 20021120
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. Sir James Mackintosh POLITICS 20021121
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. John Lothrop Motley POLITICS 20021121
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't. William Shakespeare POLITICS 20021122
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. Abraham Kuyper POLITICS 20021122
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates MARRIAGE 20021123
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters. Robert E. Lee POLITICS 20021123
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill POLITICS 20021126
Man's way of saying things encourages pride; God's way of saying things encourages humility. Frank Sells SPEECH 20021127
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Justice Louis Brandeis FREEDOM 20021127
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. Richard Whatley PRIDE 20021128
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. Sun Tzu WAR 20021128
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. Arthur Schopenhauer CHARACTER 20021129
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer FOLLY 20021129
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none. Francis Quarles SELFISH 20021130
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin MARRIAGE 20021130
To achieve happiness by a succession of pleasures is like trying to keep up a light all night by striking successive matches. Sir William Beach Thomas CHARACTER 20021201
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm Forbes PRIDE 20021201
The typical politician is not only a rascal but also a jackass, so he greatly values the puerile notoriety and adulation that sensible men try to avoid. H.L. Mencken POLITICS 20021202
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. Mark Twain POLITICS 20021202
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Franklin Pierce Adams NOSTALGIA 20021203
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. Frederic Bastiat LAW 20021203
While we have heard of stupid haste in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged. Sun Tzu WAR 20021204
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen TRUTH 20021204
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers. Robert E. Lee WAR 20021205
I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. HEROISM 20021205
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. William Shakespeare HOPE 20021206
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. C.S. Lewis HABITS 20021206
A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca GUNS 20021207
Good words are worth much, and cost little. George Herbert SPEECH 20021207
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly. Ralph Waldo Emerson PERSPECTIVE 20021208
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray Butler EXPERTISE 20021208
Habit, n. a shackle for the free. Ambrose Bierce HABITS 20021209
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. Marcus Aurelius PERSPECTIV 20021209
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw AMBITION 20021210
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch PATIENCE 20021210
Bait the hook well: this fish will bite. William Shakespeare TEMPTATION 20021211
One who is not acquainted with the designs of his neighbors should not enter into alliances with them. Sun Tzu WAR 20021211
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. Herodotus KNOWLEDGE 20021215
Divine punishments are also mercies, and particular good is worked out of particular evil. C.S. Lewis PROVIDENCE 20021216
The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none. A.W. Tozer TRUTH 20021216
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine MODERATION 20021217
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. St. John Chrysostom HUMILITY 20021217
If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. Alexander Solzhenitsyn TRUTH 20021218
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Alfred Lord Whitehead COURAGE 20021218
Men of few words are the best men. William Shakespeare SILENCE 20021219
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius INTELLIGENCE 20021219
Money is what people without talent use to keep score. Jeremy C. Epworth MONEY 20021220
A true partyman hates and despises candour. Adam Smith TRUTH 20021220
Adam was but human; this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. Mark Twain SIN 20021221
Prosperity has no power over adversity. Publilius Syrus PROSPERITY 20021221
Even the beggar who lives in alms should himself bestow alms. The Talmud GENEROSITY 20021222
We must love both those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and helped us in the finding of it. St. Thomas Aquinas TRUTH 20021222
The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection; the Resurrection explains the Gospels. John S. Whale RESURRECTION 20021223
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante Alighieri POLITICS 20021223
Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? Pope Julius III POLITICS 20021224
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Winston Churchill POLITICS 20021224
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour. Sir Denis Thatcher COMPETITION 20021225
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace. Ronald Reagan WAR 20021225
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse; the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist. Barry Goldwater POLITICS 20021226
The general who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign is like a precious jewel to the stSun Tzu WAR 20021227
An actor, at his best, a kind of unfrocked priest who for an hour or two can call on Heaven and Hell to mesmerise a group of innocents. Sir Alec Guinness ACTING 20021227
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. Mark Twain PRIDE 20021228
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. George Herbert COMMERCE 20021228
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T.S. Eliot FAITH 20030102
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana POLITICS 20030102
Next to life itself, selfresponsibility is the most precious possession one can lose, and it matters not how he loses it. Leonard E. Read POLITICS 20030103
A man's worst enemy can't wish him what he thinks up for himself. Yiddish proverb POLITICS 20030103
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors, is moral influence. Sun Tzu WAR 20030104
All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and welldisposed man. H.L. Mencken POLITICS 20030104
So it happened that all the armed prophets were victorious, and all the unarmed perished. Machiavelli POLITICS 20030105
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. Carlyle POLITICS 20030105
The national interest of the United States does not change in years divisible by four. Henry Kissinger POLITICS 20030106
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right. Robert E. Lee TRUTH 20030106
Most people would rather die than think in fact, they do. George Santayana WISDOM 20030107
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and justice and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible. Sun Tzu WAR 20030107
There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed. Horace Greeley HONESTY 20030108
That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Emerson EXAMPLE 20030108
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley TRUTH 20030109
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error. William Jennings Bryan TRUTH 20030109
He is the most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. Publius Syrus VIGILANCE 20030110
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true. H.L. Mencken SOCIALISM 20030110
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson FREEDOM 20030111
Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts. Ronald Reagan FREEDOM 20030111
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. Douglas MacArthur VIGILANCE 20030112
Perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honor and justice by dollars and cents. Harriet Beecher Stowe HONOR 20030112
Courage is the scorner of things which inspire fear. Seneca COURAGE 20030113
It took a brainstopping chain of falsehoods to bring a whole people to the state of Hitlerworship. Leonard Peikoff TYRANNY 20030113
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. Calvin Coolidge HYPOCRISY 20030117
A great flame follows a little spark. Dante Alighieri INITIATIVE 20030118
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius HONESTY 20030118
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. Martial PRESENT 20030119
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. O.H. Kahn FREEDOM 20030119
Saying and Doing have quarreled and parted. Benjamin Franklin HYPOCRISY 20030120
If the imagination were obedient, the appetites would give us very little trouble. C.S. Lewis THOUGHT 20030120
It is general popular error to regard the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Edmund Burke POLITICS 20030121
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. Leo Tolstoy DILIGENCE 20030121
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. Ronald Reagan POLITICS 20030122
It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.... And repose can only be found in everlasting principle. Charles Sumner COMPROMISE 20030122
True patriotism is of no party. Tobias Smollett PATRIOTISM 20030123
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. Sun Tzu WAR 20030123
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Vince Lombardi FATIGUE 20030124
True nobility is exempt from fear. William Shakespeare FEAR 20030124
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. Napoleon WAR 20030125
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts...and strives without fear of man to do justice to them. B. Auerbach FREEDOM 20030125
...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. Robert E. Lee HYPOCRISY 20030126
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France CULTURE 20030126
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly. H.L. Mencken FREEDOM 20030127
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing. Herbert Spencer PEACE 20030127
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. Frederic Bastiat TAXES 20030128
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? Ronald Reagan TAXES 20030128
See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. John Owen PEACE 20030129
Sir, I would rather be right than be President. Henry Clay WAR 20030205
Do not people talk in society of a man being a great actor? They do not mean by that that he feels, but that he excels in simulating, though he feels nothing. Denis Diderot WAR 20030205
...[B]e check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech. William Shakespeare SPEECH 20030205
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke WAR 20030206
[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones. Polybius VIRTUE 20030206
...There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil. Ronald Reagan STRENGTH 20030210
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Frederic Bastiat POLITICS 20030210
When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict,...when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this. Sun Tzu LEADERSHIP 20030211
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. René Descartes INTELLIGENCE 20030211
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet AUTHORITY 20030212
Be just before you're generous. Richard Brinsley Sheridan JUSTICE 20030212
Some people pay a compliment as if they expect a receipt. Anonymous COMPLIMENT 20030213
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning, but without understanding. Justice Louis Brandeis FREEDOM 20030213
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise. Michael Oakeshott REALISM 20030213
Beware of all politicians at all times, but beware of them most sharply when they talk of reforming and improving the constitution. H.L. Mencken POLITICS 20030213
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. George Gilder FAMILY 20030218
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke FREEDOM 20030219
Put no faith in salvation through the political order. St. Augustine POLITICS 20030219
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. Louis Brandeis FREEDOM 20030219
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott TRUTH 20030220
He who has mercy on the cruel will in the end behave cruelly to the merciful. Simeon ben Lakish JUSTICE 20030221
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana COMPASSION 20030224
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain PITY 20030225
If your head is wax, don't walk in the Sun. Benjamin Franklin PRIDE 20030226
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ACTION 20030227
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. William Shakespeare JUSTICE 20030228
No one has the right to thrust himself into the affairs of others in order to further their interest Ludwig von Mises FREEDOM 20030303
Men of no more than ordinary discernment never rate any person higher than he appears to rate himself. Adam Smith HUMILITY 20030304
An armed society is a polite society. Robert Heinlein GUNS 20030305
Private property, though the enemy of equality, is the ally of equity. James Q. Wilson EQUALITY 20030306
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld HYPOCRISY 20030307
Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. John Wayne FREEDOM 20030310
We can foresee a time when...the only people at liberty will be prison guards who will then have to lock up one another. Albert Camus FREEDOM 20030312
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? Mark Twain WISDOM 20030313
Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies. Benjamin Franklin TRUST 20030314
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. Samuel Johnson VIRTUE 20030317
Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States. Thomas Sowell POLITICS 20030318
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society...and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man. John Locke POLITICS 20030319
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. George Bernard Shaw POLITICS 20030319
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.... Lord Acton POLITICS 20030319
One who is master of all his exercises has no aversion to measure his strength and activity with the strongest. Adam Smith POLITICS 20030321
When I was a boy I was told that anyone could be President. I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow POLITICS 20030324
The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum. Richard Rowland POLITICS 20030325
If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham POLITICS 20030410
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. H.L. Mencken POLITICS 20030411
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. Aesop POLITICS 20030414
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. Daniel Webster POLITICS 20030415
The best prophet of the future is the past. Lord Byron POLITICS 20030416
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. Winston Churchill POLITICS 20030417
Theology teaches us what ends are desirable and what means are lawful, while politics teaches what means are effective. C.S. Lewis POLITICS 20030418
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking. Rutherford B. Hayes POLITICS 20030421
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Havelock Ellis POLITICS 20030422
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln POLITICS 20030423
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to believe some other. Ralph Waldo Emerson POLITICS 20030424
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along. Aeschylus POLITICS 20030425
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better. Otto Von Bismark POLITICS 20030428
More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures. Ronald Reagan CHRISTMAS 20030429
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. Justice Learned Hand FREEDOM 20030430
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. Abraham Kuyper FRIENDSHIP 20030501
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way that is not easy. Aristotle ANGER 20030502
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur AGE 20030502
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. V.S. Naipaul POLITICS 20030509
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice. William Lloyd Garrison HONOR 20030512
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. Murray Rothbard POLITICS 20030513
Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell SUCCESS 20030514
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. John Lancaster Spalding MEMORY 20030523
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class. Fredrick Douglass FREEDOM 20030527
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. W. R. Inge WISDOM 20030528
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. Hesiod DILIGENCE 20030529
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier HONOR 20030530
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei TRUTH 20030602
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. C.S. Lewis HONOR 20030609
Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. Ronald Reagan FAITH 20030610
To make the full case for liberty, one cannot be a methodological slave to every goal that the majority of the public might happen to cherish. Murray Rothbard FREEDOM 20030611
The function of Socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. Norman Mailer SOCIALISM 20030612
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. Aristotle DEMOCRACY 20030613
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato POLITICS 20030616
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. Seneca POWER 20030617
It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of... You are your life, and nothing else. Jean-Paul Sartre FREEDOM 20030618
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. Alexander Solzhenitsyn TRUTH 20030619
No one can kill Americans and brag about it. No one. Ronald Reagan PATRIOTISM 20030620
The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary. Murray Rothbard POLITICS 20030623
The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, 'As we should wish our friends to behave to us'. Aristotle LOVE 20030624
While hundreds of billions have been piled onto the national debt, we have created in America's great cities a permanent, sullen, resentful underclass, utterly dependent upon federal charity for food, shelter and medical care with little hope for escPatrick J. Buchanan WELFARE 20030625
I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. George Mason GUNS 20030626
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra HUMOR 20030627
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Blaise Pascal MAN 20030630
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld HUMILITY 20030702
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them. G.K. Chesterton MAN 20030703
Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. Fredrick Douglass PERSISTANCE 20030707
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. H.L. Mencken DEMOCRACY 20030708
Innocence is not goodness. Even divine Nature, even in her prime, cannot make virtue a gift. C.S. Lewis VIRTUE 20030709
What you have as heritage, Take now as task; For thus you will make it your own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe HISTORY 20030710
It is possible to get all A's and flunk life. Walker Percy WISDOM 20030711
If there is no God, all things are permissible. Fyodor Dostoyevsky ATHEISM 20030711
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. Robert E. Lee HISTORY 20030714
If the [Incarnation] happened, it was the central event in the history of the Earth. C.S. Lewis INCARNATION 20030715
If it is evident that the forcible casting of you or your children in my image is wrong, let me suggest that government schooling...is precisely the same thing, except on the grand scale. Leonard E. Read EDUCATION 20030716
The less government we have the better the fewer laws and the less confided power. Ralph Waldo Emerson FEDERALISM 20030717
Wealth unused might as well not exist. Aesop GENEROSITY 20030718
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying; its declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray. Ronald Reagan FEDERALISM 20030731
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan PERSISTANCE 20030801
One must be something to be able to do something. Goethe CHARACTER 20030804
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. Frederic Bastiat COMMERCE 20030805
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover FEDERALISM 20030806
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. Lucretius FEAR 20030807
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli PERSISTANCE 20030808
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty. Leonard Read TYRANNY 20030811
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines. Benjamin Franklin FRIENDSHIP 20030812
Humility is the foundation of all virtues. Confucius HUMILITY 20030814
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. Mark Twain WRITING 20030815
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan POLITICS 20030819
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbathbreaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Thomas De Quincey SIN 20030820
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Henry Ward Beecher INTEGRITY 20030821
[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. Voltaire OPTIMISM 20030825
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire MANNERS 20030826
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. Miguel de Cervantes KINDNESS 20030827
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. P. J. O'Rourke WELFARE 20030828
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. Mark Twain EDUCATION 20030829
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. Edmund Burke WELFARE 20030902
[G]overnment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan POLITICS 20030903
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. Samuel Rutherford WISDOM 20020124
It is contrary to reason to expect that the armed man should voluntarily submit to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should stand secure among armed retainers.... Machiavelli GUNS 20020124
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson HEROISM 20020124
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon FAITH 20020124
I believe and disbelieve 100 times in an hour, which keeps believing nimble. Emily Dickinson FAITH 20020125
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. Jean Ingelow PRAYER 20020125
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler BOREDOM 20020125
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes TRUTH 20020125
Nothing is terrible except fear itself. Francis Bacon FEAR 20020126
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Thomas Henry Huxley FAILURE 20020126
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. Emerson TRUTH 20020126
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. Albert Einstein KNOWLEDGE 20020126
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. Jean Nicolas Grou TRIALS 20020127
Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped. Alexander Hamilton GUNS 20020127
Whatever you have, spend less. Samuel Johnson FRUGALITY 20020127
Everyone thinks the rich man is one whose assets are ten dollars more than his; the poor man is one with assets of a hundred thousand dollars less. Franklin Stephens ENVY 20020127
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson LITERATURE 20020128
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. C.S. Lewis TYRANNY 20020128
No work begun shall ever pause for death! Robert Browning PERSISTANCE 20020128
'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope EXPECTATIONS 20020128
There's small choice in rotten apples. William Shakespeare CHOICES 20020129
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. Mark Twain ANGER 20020129
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill POLITICS 20020129
Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. John Galsworthy POLITICS 20020129
No man is the whole of himself. His friends are the rest of him. George Whitefield POLITICS 20020130
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill POLITICS 20020130
A truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake POLITICS 20020130
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. Jean Jacques Rousseau POLITICS 20020131
I deny I ever said that actors are cattle. What I said was, 'Actors should be treated like cattle'. Alfred Hitchcock POLITICS 20020131
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. Plato EASTER 20020131
In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson EASTER 20020201
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven. John Milton EASTER 20020201
There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin EASTER 20020201
You never know what life means till you die: Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live, Gives it whatever the significance. Robert Browning EASTER 20020202
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle EASTER 20020202
When divine souls appear, men are compelled by their own selfrespect to distinguish them. Ralph Waldo Emerson EASTER 20020202
The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His. George Macdonald EASTER 20020202
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. Ronald Reagan EASTER 20020203
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,Patrick Henry EASTER 20020203
The State is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Frederic Bastiat TAXES 20020203
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Henry David Thoreau DESPAIR 20020203
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton PLEASURE 20020204
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. Sir Richard Steele PRIDE 20020218
Things are not always what they seem. Phaedrus PERCEPTION 20020218
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. William Blake PERCEPTION 20020218
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens LOGIC 20020219
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford FAILURE 20020219
Once 'our people' get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being 'our people'. M. Stanton Evans TYRANNY 20020219
Beautiful hands are they that do deeds that are noble, good and true; Beautiful feet are they that go swiftly to lighten another's woe. McGuffy's Second Reader GENEROSITY 20020219
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth PERSISTANCE 20020220
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. Henry Brooks Adams POWER 20020220
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau SIMPLICITY 20020220
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. Titus Maccius Plautus WISDOM 20020221
To fear the worst oft cures the worse. William Shakespeare FEAR 20020221
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. Paul Johnson HISTORY 20020221
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common save one word equality; socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude, while democracy seeks equality in liberty. Alexis de Tocqueville TYRANNY 20020221
The budget should be balanced,...the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled...lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work. Cicero TYRANNY 20020222
An educated guess is just as accurate and far faster than compiled errors. George S. Patton KNOWLEDGE 20020225
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. Samuel Johnson KNOWLEDGE 20020225
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Francis Bacon VISION 20020225
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Nadine Gordimer POWER 20020226
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. Edmund Burke FREEDOM 20020226
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli GENEROSITY 20020226
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld LOVE 20020226
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. William Shakespeare MERCY 20020227
I can deal with real troubles; it is the imaginary ones that get me down. John Keats TRIALS 20020227
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. Edwin Meese EXPERTS 20020227
We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. Mother Teresa UNKNOWN 20020227
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson UNKNOWN 20020228
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman UNKNOWN 20020228
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas Edison UNKNOWN 20020228
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. Jeremy Taylor UNKNOWN 20020228
...[I]nnocence, like truth, exists as a power of its own in the world, independent of the machinations of men. Carl M. Cannon UNKNOWN 20020301
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson UNKNOWN 20020301
Apt words have power to assuage the tumors of a troubled mind. John Milton UNKNOWN 20020301
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope UNKNOWN 20020301
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. William Shakespeare UNKNOWN 20020302
Disobedience is a right that belongs to every human being, and it becomes a sacred duty when it springs from civility, or, which is the same thing, love. M. K. Gandhi UNKNOWN 20020302
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. Yogi Berra UNKNOWN 20020302
Giving a bureaucrat a new rule is like handing a pyromaniac a lighted match in a haymow. Ronald Reagan UNKNOWN 20020302
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain UNKNOWN 20020303
Talk of the devil and he'll appear. Erasmus UNKNOWN 20020303
More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much. P. T. Barnum UNKNOWN 20020303
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. Spinoza PRIDE 20020303
Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise! Samuel Rutherford UNKNOWN 20020304
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. Johannes Tauler UNKNOWN 20020304
For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves out again. William Shakespeare UNKNOWN 20020304
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle LOGIC 20020304
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Henry Ward Beecher UNKNOWN 20020305
One of the disadvantages of democracy is that the minority has the say and the majority has to pay. John Perkins UNKNOWN 20020305
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. Mark Twain UNKNOWN 20020305
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Francis Bacon UNKNOWN 20020305
At the end, God will not ask what you have saved, but what you have given. Flora Larson UNKNOWN 20020306
Good counselors lack no clients. William Shakespeare UNKNOWN 20020306
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with. Peter Marshall UNKNOWN 20020306
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton UNKNOWN 20020306
I have learned that money is not the measure of a man, but it is often the means of finding out how small he is. Oswald J. Smith MONEY 20020307
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher UNKNOWN 20020307
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. John Maynard Keynes BUREAUCRACY 20020307
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Miguel de Cervantes DILIGENCE 20020307
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver NATURE 20020308
...The said Constitution be never construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams GUN CONTROL 20020308
A little philosophy inclines a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy brings men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon PHILOSOPHY 20020308
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa TRIALS 20020308
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. Henry David Thoreau POVERTY 20020309
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot. Plato PHILOSOPHY 20020309
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein KNOWLEDGE 20020309
When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long. Ronald Reagan POLITICS 20020309
He who has God and Everything has nothing more than he who has God alone. C.S. Lewis VIRTUE 20020310
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. Frederic Bastiat BUSINESS 20020310
First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus SPEECH 20020310
What is the city but the people? William Shakespeare POLITICS 20020310
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ. William Barclay OBEDIENCE 20020311
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him. Plutarch VIRTUE 20020311
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein FAITH 20020311
If the world were like me, what kind of world would this be? Anonymous VIRTUE 20020311
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. F.F. Bosworth FAITH 20020312
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Bert Leston Taylor TACT 20020312
When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence. Matthew Henry FAITH 20020312
There are ... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it. Charles Hedge SIN 20020312
Other things being equal, one hypothesis is more plausible than another if it involves fewer numbers of new assumptions. David Kelley LOGIC 20020313
It is rightly impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. George Washington BIBLE 20020313
Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire of glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion. Tacitus FAME 20020313
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Milton Friedman GOVERNMENT 20020313
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. Cato POLITICS 20020314
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey POLITICS 20020314
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. W. Russell Bowie POLITICS 20020314
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. Carl Sandburg POLITICS 20020315
If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desir'd. William Shakespeare POLITICS 20020315
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire POLITICS 20020315
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. C.S. Lewis PURITY 20020329
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle EXCELLENCE 20020329
If man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be...to be manipulated ... [by] his dehumanized conditioners. C.S. Lewis INDEPENDENCE 20020330
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. Elbert Hubbard REWARDS 20020330
Men no longer attempt to rule by the sword, but they find in money a weapon as sharp and more effective. James Gordon Bennett MONEY 20020330
The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it. Elmer Davis COURAGE 20020330
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. Francois de Sales PRAYER 20020417
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. Polybius STRATEGY 20020417
It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ. Martin Luther FAITH 20020417
Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do. James Stenson CHILDREN 20020417
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians. John Tillotson UNITY 20020418
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens CHARACTER 20020418
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass POLITICS 20020418
Governments are not formed to achieve, but to protect. James Fenimore Cooper POLITICS 20020505
Mankind are very odd Creatures: One Half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought. Benjamin Franklin HYPOCRISY 20020506
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost INDEPENDENCE 20020506
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. J. Gustav White FRIENDSHIP 20020506
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. William Shakespeare SORROW 20020506
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. Edwin Keith PRAYER 20020507
Love gives itself; it is not bought. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LOVE 20020507
All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government. Ronald Reagan FEDERALISM 20020526
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Aristotle ENDURANCE 20020527
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. Charles Haddon Spurgeon PERSISTANCE 20020527
Laughter has no greater foe than emotion.... To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart. Henri Bergson HUMOR 20020527
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans. George MacDonald OBEDIENCE 20020528
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot OBEDIENCE 20020528
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere.... Give us courage and...the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Robert Louis Stevenson PERSISTANCE 20020528
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain COURAGE 20020609
Beware the tyranny of the minority. Latin Proverb TYRANNY 20020609
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. Mother Teresa PRAYER 20020609
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent. A.W. Tozer FAITH 20020610
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. Charlie Shedd CHRISTIANITY 20020610
It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt FAILURE 20020610
How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. George MacDonald FAITH 20020611
None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now. St. Augustine HEAVEN 20020611
The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God. W. T. Richardson VIRTUE 20020611
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. C.S. Lewis WAR 20020704
No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God. St. Cyprian GRACE 20020705
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. Cicero WAR 20020705
How merrily we headed for catastrophe! Albert Speer WAR 20020706
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. Jerry Bridges GRACE 20020706
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge VIRTUE 20020707
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Winston Churchill WAR 20020707
It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. Hyman Rickover WISDOM 20020720
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Alexander Pope SIN 20020721
America seeks no empire built on blood and forces...she cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. Calvin Coolidge JUSTICE 20020721
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther TRUTH 20020722
We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free. Cicero JUSTICE 20020722
Lex mala, lex nulla. (An evil law, is no law). Thomas Aquinas JUSTICE 20020722
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. Dwight Lyman Moody PROSPERITY 20020805
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. Epictetus SUBMISSION 20020805
Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples. Selwyn Hughes FAITH 20020805
Our prayers will see answers when we believe in what we ask for. John Iverson PRAYER 20020807
Let's not drag God's standard of truth down to our level of performance. Morris Vendon TRUTH 20020807
The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we. Justice William Brennan FREEDOM 20020807
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. St. Augustine FORGIVENESS 20020821
Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter. Francis of Assisi FAITH 20020822
When you have nothing left but God...you become aware that God is enough. Maude Royden WAR 20020822
The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand. Francis Schaeffer CREATION 20020823
Be extremely subtle, to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. SunTsu WAR 20020823
Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders. F.W. Faber TRIALS 20020824
Back in the '20's, Will Rogers had an answer for those who believed that strength invited war. He said, 'I've never seen anyone insult Jack Dempsey' (world heavyweight champion at that time). Ronald Reagan WAR 20020825
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days. Robert Leighton OPTIMISM 20020908
Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in 'muchness' and 'manyness,' he will rest satisfied. Richard J. Foster MEDITATION 20020909
Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets. George Washington Carver MEDITATION 20020909
I've called for whatever it takes to be so strong that no other nation will dare violate the peace. If that means superiority, so be it. Ronald Reagan STRENGTH 20020910
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens OPTIMISM 20020922
He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays. John Owen PRAYER 20020923
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple. Phillips Brooks TRIALS 20020923
I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was 'Feed my sheep,' not 'Try experiments on my rats,' or even 'Teach my performing dogs new tricks'. C.S. Lewis PASTORS 20020924
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. Elton Trueblood FAITH 20020924