Quote

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain forever a child.” 
    —   Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 bc), Roman orator

Lincoln Quote

Yes, he did. I checked it out. Lincoln's 1860 Presidential Campaign - Library of Congress

The greatest thing we can offer our culture

“The greatest thing we can offer our culture, our nation, and our world is friendship with Christ. Nothing so threatens the culture of death and the dictatorship of relativism as an encounter with the love of God in Jesus Christ.”

— Fidelis V01 N01, June 2013

Relativism – n. any theory holding that truth or moral or aesthetic value, etc., is not universal or absolute but may differ between individuals or cultures.

Threats against Religious Freedom

“Threats against religious freedom in our country are not imaginary or overstated. They’re happening right now. They’re immediate, serious, and real.”

–Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

To Be Happy and Prosperous

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian."

- Henry Ford

Quote - Daniel Webster - Taxes

"The power to tax is the power to destroy."

--Daniel Webster (1782–1852)

And I must say dear legislators, I am taxed to the hilt, I have no more else to give. I have no discretionary spending. Yeah, I'm pretty much destroyed. Thank you so very much. You now have more people in the cart than are pulling the cart. I am done pulling. Who is John Galt?

I Love Ben Stein!

Paradoxical Quote of The Day From Ben Stein:

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."

Now add this,

"Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens."

Important Obama Quote

The Quote of the Decade:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
– Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Atlas Shrugged Excerpt

He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach the kittens hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on taking their fledglings to fly — yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, is not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.

- Page 994

Some of My Favorite Quotes

I am only one,
but still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something;
and because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale


A true professional is excited about his work, promotes his field, seeks responsibility, maintains integrity, strives for competence and displays initiative, creativity and mature judgment.

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"Seek first to understand" involves a very deep shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives. If they have a problem with someone — a son, a daughter, a spouse, and an himemployee — their attitude is, "That person just doesn't understand."

from "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"


“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength”

St. Francis de Sales quotes (French Roman Catholic bishop of Geneva, active in the struggle against Calvinism, 1567-1622)

Admonitions

It is not lawful to take the things of others to give to the poor. It is a sin worthy of punishment, not an act deserving a reward, to give away what belongs to others.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Admonitions to the Brethren

H/T Portiuncula: the Little Portion

Get the Full Flavor

To get the full flavor of an herb, it must be pressed between the fingers, so it is the same with the Scriptures; the more familiar they become, the more they reveal their hidden treasures and yield their indescribable riches.

St. John Chrysostom

Quote

Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.

[GK Chesterton “Christendom in Dublin,” 1933]

Quote - Tocqueville

In a Democracy, the people get the government they deserve- Alexis de Tocqueville

Quotes G. K. Chesterton

" I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."

"Only a live fish can swim against the current, the dead go with it"

“Be careful not to be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”

“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles." --G.K.Chesterton

H/T Fr. Dwight Longenecke