Quote for the Day! - Archive

Tuesday, Jun 30, 2020

“I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into somebody else's pockets to help your fellow man in need is despicable. And, for those of us who are Christians, I'm very sure that when God gave Moses the commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, he did not mean ...unless you get a majority vote in Congress.”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, commentator and author.
(1936 - present)

Monday, Jun 29, 2020

“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.”

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
American composer, pianist and jazz orchestra leader.
(1899 - 1974)

Friday, Jun 26, 2020

“So many are shocked today to find their children lacking religious motivations, lacking patriotism, lacking even a very clear sense of moral responsibility. They fail to realize that these virtues are in great part culturally determined. We have lived on cultural capital from a past generation, having failed to counteract its depletion.”

John Senior
American professor, teacher and author.
(1923 - 1999)

Thursday, Jun 25, 2020

“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”

Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2020

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2020

“We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on those faces, there is no smile.”

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc aka Hilaire Belloc
Anglo-French writer, historian, orator, poet, sailor, soldier & political activist.
(1870 - 1953)

Monday, Jun 22, 2020

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix
American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.
(1942 - 1970)

Friday, Jun 19, 2020

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

Billy Graham
American evangelist and Christian leader.
(1918 - 2018)

Thursday, Jun 18, 2020

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

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

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2020

“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”

Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian and fierce critic of Communism. He was arrested for criticizing Joseph Stalin and spent 11 years in labor camps and exile.
(1918 - 2008)

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2020

“It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.”

John W. Gardner
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
(1912 - 2002)

Monday, Jun 15, 2020

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

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

Friday, Jun 12, 2020

“If a man is with God and God is with him, clearly he is able to say, "Though I walk through the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." "The shadow of death" is human life.”

Saint Maximus the Confessor
Monk, theologian and scholar.
(580 AD - 662 AD)

Thursday, Jun 11, 2020

“It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.”

Ronald Knox
English priest, theologian and author.
(1888 - 1957)

Wednesday, Jun 10, 2020

“The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)

Tuesday, Jun 09, 2020

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

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

Monday, Jun 08, 2020

“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa & Nobel Laureate.
(1918 - 2013)

Friday, Jun 05, 2020

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

James Baldwin
American novelist, essayist, poet and activist.
(1924 - 1987)

Thursday, Jun 04, 2020

“We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”

Mohandas Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi
Preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India also known as the Father of the Nation of India.
(1869 - 1948)

Wednesday, Jun 03, 2020

“Nothing good ever comes of violence.”

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

Tuesday, Jun 02, 2020

“The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.”

Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1908 - 1993)

Monday, Jun 01, 2020

“The Kingdom of God tells you not to do to others what you don't want them to do to you, even if people harm you or do violence to you.”

René Girard
French historian and anthropological philosopher.
(1923 - 2015)