“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Category Archives: Quotations
Excluded From the Means…
“Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.”
–John Stuart Mill
The aristocracy of our monied corporations…
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
–Mark Twain
The Trial of Principle
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
–Albert Einstein
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
–Henry Fielding
Coin, credit and circulation
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
–Mark Twain
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation [money].”
–John Adams
“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.”
–Will Rogers
American Crisis – 2
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
–Thomas Jefferson
American Crisis – 1
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.”
–Will Rogers
“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
–Billy Graham
If Humankind is to Survive…
“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”
–E. M. Forster (Novelist)
“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.”
–Gene Roddenberry (Creator of Star Trek)
A Freedom of Differences
“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”
–Voltaire
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
–Nelson Mandela
Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”
–Ayn Rand
“They say ‘means are after all means’. I would say ‘means are after all everything’. As the means so the end.”
–Mohandas Gandhi
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Ends and Means
“The principle that the ends justify the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals.”
–F. A. Hayek
“He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.”
–Harry Emerson Fosdick
A Shattered World
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
–Helen Keller
Liberty and the American Idea 