Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Jan 29, 2021

“We pray Thee, O God of might, wisdom, and justice! Through whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment decreed, assist with Thy Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude the President of these United States, that his administration may be conducted in righteousness, and be eminently useful to Thy people over whom he presides; by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality.”

John Carroll, SJ
First bishop in the United States of America.
(1735 - 1815)

Thursday, Jan 28, 2021

“What's the very first step taken by every dictatorship since history has been recorded? The prohibition of free speech, the curbing and elimination of a free press.”

Malcom Forbes
American entrepreneur and magazine publisher.
(1919 - 1990)

Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021

“It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.”

G.K. Chesterton
Arguably the greatest thinker & writer of the 20th century. He defended "the common man", common sense, the poor, the family, beauty, Christianity & the Catholic Faith.
(1874 - 1936)

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021

“...the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.”

Claude-Frédéric Bastiat
French economist and author.
(1801 - 1850)

Monday, Jan 25, 2021

“Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet of the Victorian era.
(1806 - 1861)

Friday, Jan 22, 2021

“If I should fall a thousand times a day, a thousand times I will begin again.”

Venerable Father Bruno Lanteri, O.M.V.
Italian priest & founder of the religious congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary.
(1759 - 1830)

Thursday, Jan 21, 2021

“As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.”

Gertrude Himmelfarb
American historian.
(1922 - 2019)

Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021

“What we most need at this moment of history are men who make God visible in this world through their enlightened and lived faith.”

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - present)

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2021

“The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.”

Saint Bridget of Sweden
Religious mystic and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Savior.
(1303 - 1373)

Monday, Jan 18, 2021

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

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

Friday, Jan 15, 2021

“O my God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy mercies toward me.”

Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)

Thursday, Jan 14, 2021

“Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.”

Elmer Davis
American reporter, author & Peabody Award recipient.
(1890 - 1958)

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021

“I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.”

Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II & first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States of America.
(1874 - 1965)

Tuesday, Jan 12, 2021

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

Aristotle
Greek philosopher and scientist.
(384BC - 322BC)

Monday, Jan 11, 2021

“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, by these we reach divinity.”

John Donne
English poet and Anglican priest.
(1572 - 1631)

Friday, Jan 08, 2021

“Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.”

Saint Benedict of Nursia
Founder of Western Christian monasticism.
(480AD - 547AD)

Thursday, Jan 07, 2021

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

Thomas Mann
German Nobel laureate, novelist, social critic, philanthropist.
(1875 - 1929)

Wednesday, Jan 06, 2021

“We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.”

Michael Novak
Philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat.
(1933 - 2017)

Tuesday, Jan 05, 2021

“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, ...than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.”

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

Monday, Jan 04, 2021

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James
American philosopher and psychologist.
(1842 - 1910)