"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." --Samuel Adams
"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan." --C. S. Lewis
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government--lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."--Patrick Henry
"In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator." --Samuel Adams
"There is no question that we have failed to live up to the dreams of the Founding Fathers many times and in many places. Sometimes we do better than others. But all in all, the one thing we must be on guard against is thinking that because of this, the system has failed. The system has not failed. Some human beings have failed the system." --Ronald Reagan (1973)
"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed."--James Madison, upon introducing the Bill of Rights into the First Congress on June 8, 1789. This is the basis of what became the First Amendment.
"Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."--John Adams (1735-1826)
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favors." --George Washington
"It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's." --Mark Twain
"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." --James Madison
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."--Winston Churchill
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." --George Washington Carver
"Can it really be true, that the First Amendment can permit Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to march on public property, advocate the extermination of people of the Jewish faith and the subjugation of blacks, while the same amendment forbids our children from saying a prayer in school?" --Ronald Reagan (1984)
"Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman." -- Peter Mayle
"There are so many congressmen and senators here [in Washington, D.C.], I don't know whether to tell a joke or pass a bill...as if there was a difference." --Bob Hope |
