Notable Quotes
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people.
The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men;
but be careful that you do not take the day,
and leave out the gratitude.”
—E.P. Powell
“Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes,
or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters.
For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
—C.S. Lewis
“It is the Manners and Spirit of a people which preserve a Republic in vigor.
A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its Laws and Constitution.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“The things you really need are few and easy to come by;
But the things you can imagine you need are infinite,
and you will never be satisfied.”
—Epicurus
“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option;
that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation,
or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.”
—Alexander Hamilton
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled b by morality and religion.
Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
—John Adams