Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Jun 30, 2023

“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it.”

Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Priest & Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz during World War II.
(1894 - 1941)

Thursday, Jun 29, 2023

“There is no such thing as public liberty without free speech.”

Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)

Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”

Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer considered to be one of the greatest in the history of Western music.
(1685 - 1750)

Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023

“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true...This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uniformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.”

Anthony Kennedy
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1936 - present)

Monday, Jun 26, 2023

“To the brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.”

Saint Catherine of Siena
Mystic, activist, author & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1347 - 1380)

Friday, Jun 23, 2023

“As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity; so is the Christian tried in temptation.”

Saint Basil the Great
Bishop, Confessor and & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(330AD - 379AD)

Thursday, Jun 22, 2023

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023

“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”

Jacqueline Kennedy
Former First Lady of the United States of America.
(1929 - 1994)

Tuesday, Jun 20, 2023

“A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom...On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy byproduct, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.”

Milton Friedman
American economist & Nobel Laureate.
(1912 - 2006)

Monday, Jun 19, 2023

“One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.”

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister, and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)

Friday, Jun 16, 2023

“We owe three things to God: love, service, reverence.”

Saint John of God
Portuguese Founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God whose members make solemn vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and service to the sick for life in their hospitals.
(1495 - 1550)

Thursday, Jun 15, 2023

“God governs in the affairs of men (Daniel 4:17). And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice (Matthew 10:29), is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”

Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)

Wednesday, Jun 14, 2023

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.”

J.K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist.
(1965 - present)

Tuesday, Jun 13, 2023

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States of America.
(1911 - 2004)

Monday, Jun 12, 2023

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer.
(1880 - 1968)

Friday, Jun 09, 2023

“God commands you to pray but forbids you to worry.”

Saint John Vianney, T.O.S.F. (aka "Curé d'Ars")
French parish priest and patron saint of parish priests.
(1786 - 1859)

Thursday, Jun 08, 2023

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

James Madison
One of the Founding Fathers and fourth president of the United States of America.
(1751 - 1836)

Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023

“It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that make men great.”

Arnold H. Glasgow
American entrepreneur, publisher, and author.
(1905 - 1998)

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels
German Reich Minister of Propaganda for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (the "Nazi Party") under Adolf Hitler.
(1897 - 1945)

Monday, Jun 05, 2023

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”

Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath, inventor, painter, sculptor and writer.
(1452 - 1519)

Friday, Jun 02, 2023

“I am who I am before God, no more and no less.”

Saint Francis of Assisi
Friar, preacher, and founder of the Order of Friars Minor (the "Franciscans").
(1182 - 1226)