Quotes
On Peace
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” ——Mahatma Gandhi “Let peace on earth begin with me.” ——Author…
On Keys to Christian Living
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love… The test of a…
On Integrity, Honesty, and Virtue (Part 3)
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” ——Alfred Adler “A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.” ——Pierpoint Morgan “The degree of civilization…
On Integrity, Honesty, and Virtue (Part 2)
“To love life, is to love everything that lives.” ——Author Unknown “To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves.” ——Carrie Chapman Catt “Man is subject to innumerable pains…
On Integrity, Honesty, and Virtue (Part 1)
“Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based upon values rather than personal gain.” ——Author Unknown “The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.” ——Daniel Berrigan “These are…
International Proverbs (Part 4)
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” ——Chinese Proverb “The pine stays green in winter… Wisdom in hardship.” ——Chinese Proverb “The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.” ——Irish Proverb “The reverse side also has a reverse side.”…
International Proverbs (Part 3)
“Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.” ——Polish Proverb “Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.” ——French Proverb “Love me, love my dog.” ——John Heywood, The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546) “Love your neighbors,…
International Proverbs (Part 2)
“Epigrams succeed where epics fail.” ——Persian Proverb “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.” ——Bible, Proverbs 17:28 “Even a small thorn causes festering.” ——Irish…
On Civil Law
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the…
International Proverbs (Part 1)
“The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.” ——Traditional German Saying “The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.” ——French Proverb “The silent dog is the first to bite.” ——German Proverb “The smallest thing outlives the…
On Lying
“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.” ——Victor Hugo “In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of…
On Freedom of Speech
“Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.” ——Archibald MacLeish “No duty, however, binds us to…
On “A Free Press”
“This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions…
On Heroism
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed” ——Thomas Jefferson (American 3rd US President (1801-09) and, Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826) “The soldier does not wish to appear a coward,…
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