“The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”
–John Adams (Second president of the United States)
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth we cannot know it.”
–Pascal
“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
–Georges Braque
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
–Benjamin Franklin
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
–Billy Graham
“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”
–Paul Tillich
“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
–E. M. Forster
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
–Ayn Rand
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
–Stephen R. Covey
“God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.”
–Billy Graham
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
–Charles Evans Hughes
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
–Yogi Berra
“It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
–Nathaniel Hawthorne, Early American novelist
“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”
–Henri J. M. Nouwen, Christian mystic
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. It has no subject matter. That’s the problem.”
–Ronald H. Coase, Nobel Prize in Economics
Liberty and the American Idea 