"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have"---Thomas Jefferson
"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. "
"Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." ~Thomas Jefferson
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July 1816
Ronald Reagan's Assignment to us all:
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." --
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Miscellaneous:
"While I appreciate that becoming your "brother in Islam" might afford me a measure of personal security,
some things are more important than that. I cannot and will not give in to personal intimidation,
and I don't want to live in a society that bows to such intimidation." - (Robert Spencer)
If a nation expects to be ignorant - and free - in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson
"You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, 'which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others." - (Rick Warren)
Proverbs 29:27 -
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception; the one who lies with sincerity.
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - (Edmund Burke)
Eisenhower on Free Speech:
"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
I never said most of the things I said. Yogi Berra
[W]e must choose from among our guardians those men who, upon examination, seem most of all to believe throughout their lives that they must eagerly pursue what is advantageous to the city and be wholly unwilling
to do the opposite. Socrates
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both." - Proverbs 29:13
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things:
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910),
("Following the Equator", 1897)
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history." -
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams.
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." -
John Adams (1735 - 1826),
Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." (Robert Jackson)
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950),
"Misalliance"
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
Job 11:12
"An idiot will become intelligent when the foal of a wild donkey is born a man."
"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
George Jackson (1941 - 1971)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana (1863 - 1952),
The Life of Reason
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881),
speech, January 24, 1860
"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
They never mention that part to us, do they?"
George Carlin
"The I.R.S. has what it takes to take what you have!"
"Government'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
"There are only two places where socialism will ever work-in Heaven, where it is not needed, and in Hell, where it is already in practice!" - Winston Churchill
“Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue. Extremism in the pursuit of justice is no vice. -- Senator Barry Goldwater
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine
TIME
- We enter it at birth,
- We pass through it in life,
- We exit it at death--
- It was our preparation for eternity.
-- Richard (Dick) Innes
Conscience: A person's moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects their own behaviour.
"Never do anything against, even if the state demands it." (Albert Einstein)
Etymology: conscience, from conscientia 'knowledge within oneself', from scire 'to know'.
(Albert Einstein...as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist, 1949)
Albert Einstein said, the definition of insanity...doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results.
"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."
George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1789
The Ten Commandments:
Exodus 20:1-18 *(NASB)
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Then God spoke all these words, saying,
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"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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"You shall have no other gods before Me.
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"You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
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"You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain."
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"Remember (K)the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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"Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it (M)you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
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"For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
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"Honor your father and your mother, that your (B)days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
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"You shall not murder.
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"You shall not commit adultery.
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"You shall not steal.
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"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
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All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.
New American Standard Bible *(NASB)
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1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
Proverbs 29:13(NIV)
"The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both."
Proverbs 29:27(NASB)
"An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked."
Psalm 14:1-2 [NIV]
1 The fool says in his heart,
"There is no God."
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.
2 The LORD looks down from heaven
on the sons of men
to see if there are any who understand,
any who seek God.
Psalm 92: (NASB)
6 The senseless man does not know,
fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be forever destroyed.
8 But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.
Micah 6:8 (NASB) He has (A)told you, O man, what is good; And (B)what does the LORD require of you but to (C)do justice,
to (D)love kindness, and to walk (E)humbly with your God?
Matthew 6:9-13 (NASB)
(9)"(B)Pray, then, in this way:
'Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
(10)'(C)Your kingdom come
(D)Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
(11)'(E)Give us this day our daily bread.
(12)'And (F)forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
(13)'And do not lead us into temptation, but (G)deliver us from (H)evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]'
Mark 12:17 (NASB)
And Jesus said to them, " Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
And they were amazed at Him.
Romans 13:1, 9 (NIV)
[ Submission to the Authorities ] "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.
The authorities that exist have been established by God."
9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."
2 Timothy 2:23 (NIV) "
Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels."
Matthew 22:36-39 (NASB)36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
37 And He said to him,
" 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,
AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 "The second is like it,
'(F)YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
