Sayings
Issue #23 Posted July 4, 2002

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." – Douglas MacArthur

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." – Sun Tzu

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." -- Alexander Pope

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." – Voltaire

"...[T]here can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle." – Murray N. Rothbard

"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only." – La Rochefoucauld

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Justice is that virtue that assigns to every man his due." – Saint Augustine

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." – Leonardo DaVinci

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." – Benjamin Franklin

"He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle, and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise." – Shakespeare

"Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death." --Socrates

"I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me." – Ronald Reagan

"Teaching children to disregard their consciences is the surest path to lawlessness." – Alan Keyes

"For centuries, theologians and philosophers understood that conscience is the anvil of virtue and character. They took it for granted that God places his moral law in the heart, or conscience, of every person." – Joseph Laconte

"The American Civil Liberties Union...is so committed to 'diversity,' abortion rights and gay rights that when one of these causes comes into conflict with free speech, it is free speech that is likely to suffer." – John Leo

"We need to get money out of government. Only then will money not be important in politics. Campaign finance laws will not make politicians more ethical, but they will make it harder for average Americans to influence Washington." – Rep. Ron Paul

Terror isn't about throwing off oppression, and it never has been. Terror is about the obscene joy to be had in creating chaos." – Michael Long

"When did a lack of money and accomplishment become a mark of virtue?" --Ann Coulter

"It's ideology, not poverty, that causes political violence." – Don Feder

"The mere wealth of America is not what engenders love of country. In fact, the least affluent areas are probably the most patriotic." – Mona Charen

"Only those in denial reject the proposition of a leftism that dominates the written and visual media alike." – Ross Mackenzie

"Ultimately nations, like individuals, cannot depend upon each other, but must depend upon themselves. Each one must work out its own salvation. We have every desire to help.... While we desire always to

cooperate and to help, we are equally determined to be independent and free. Right and truth and justice and humanitarian efforts will have the moral support of this country all over the world. But we do not

wish to become involved in the political controversies of others." – Calvin Coolidge

"[T]o promote true religion is the best and most effectual way of making a virtuous and regular people. Love to God and love to man is the substance of religion; when these prevail, civil laws will have little to do." – John Witherspoon

"Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order.... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." – Thomas Jefferson

"Our religion must not alone be the concern of the emotions, but must be woven into the warp and woof of our every-day life." -- Booker T. Washington

"Justice without strength is powerless, strength without justice is tyrannical.... Therefore, unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just." – Blaise Pascal

"Christians ought to rise together in defense of spiritual and moral values against the pressure of materialism and moral permissiveness." – Pope John Paul I

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." – Mother Teresa

"The morality and values faith implies are deeply embedded in our national character. Our country embraces those principles by design, and we abandon them at our peril." -- Ronald Reagan

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in times of prosperity would have lain dormant." -- Horace

"There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect." – Woodrow Wilson

"You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way." – Will Rogers

"Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief efforts to trying to prove that the other is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed and are right." – H.L. Mencken

"There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men can't be ruled." – Ayn Rand

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