Quote for the Day! - Archive

Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021

“The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States of America.
(1884 - 1962)

Monday, Mar 29, 2021

“Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher and poet.
(1803 - 1882)

Friday, Mar 26, 2021

“Prayer is an aspiration of the heart. It is a simple glance directed to Heaven. It is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy.”

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1873 - 1897)

Thursday, Mar 25, 2021

“Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous...our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.”

Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
(1902 - 1994)

Wednesday, Mar 24, 2021

“Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Christian hope is based on this truth.”

Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)

Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.”

Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman.
(1818 - 1895)

Monday, Mar 22, 2021

“There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most-happiness, freedom, and peace of mind-are always attained when we give them to others. Give it away to get it back.”

John Wooden
As head basketball coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including an unprecedented seven in a row.
(1910 - 2010)

Friday, Mar 19, 2021

“It is better to be a child of God than king of the whole world.”

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Italian aristocrat and member of the Society of Jesus.
(1568 - 1591)

Thursday, Mar 18, 2021

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President of the United States of America & Five-Star General.
(1890 - 1969)

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2021

“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.”

Robert J. McCracken
American minister and author.
(1904 - 1973)

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

Louis D. Brandeis
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1856 - 1941)

Monday, Mar 15, 2021

“Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if He wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.”

Saint Philip Neri
Italian priest and mystic noted for his piety, good humor and holiness.
(1515 - 1595)

Friday, Mar 12, 2021

“Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.”

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
American Catholic bishop known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio.
(1895 - 1979)

Thursday, Mar 11, 2021

“A society that puts equality-in the sense of equality of outcome-ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.”

Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize Winning Economist.
(1912 - 2006)

Wednesday, Mar 10, 2021

“This principle, that a whole nation has a right to do whatever it pleases, cannot in any sense whatever be admitted as true. The eternal and immutable laws of justice and morality are paramount to all human legislation.”

John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the United States of America.
(1767 - 1848)

Tuesday, Mar 09, 2021

“Always love your country - but never trust your government!”

Robert Novak
American journalist and author.
(1931 - 2009)

Monday, Mar 08, 2021

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)

Friday, Mar 05, 2021

“The frank and open acceptance of truth is the condition for authentic freedom: 'You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free' (Jn 8:32).”

Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)

Thursday, Mar 04, 2021

“In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.”

Malcolm Muggeridge
English journalist, politician and author.
(1903 - 1990)

Wednesday, Mar 03, 2021

“Freedom means that if you are a professor, you don't have to alter science or history as a bureaucrat prescribes. If you own a newspaper, you don't limit your editorial opinions to what an official censor approves...If you think taxes are too high, you can vote against those officials you think responsible. And there is no limitation upon your inherent American right to criticize anybody, anywhere, at any time.”

Wendell L. Willkie
American lawyer, corporate executive, activist and statesman.
(1892 - 1944)

Tuesday, Mar 02, 2021

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.”

James Madison
One of the Founding Fathers and fourth president of the United States of America.
(1851 - 1836)

Monday, Mar 01, 2021

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher and writer.
(571 BC - 471 BC)