Winston Churchill

British Statesman, Soldier, and Author
(1874-1965)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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Andrew Carnegie

US industrialist and philanthropist
(1835-1919)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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Charles M. Schulz

U.S. Cartoonist
(1922-2000)

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. (LOL, some days I really understand this! Most days I don't!)

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Clive Staples Lewis

English Author
(1898-1963)

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.



A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.


A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.


Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.


Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.


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President Franklin Pierce

14th President

(1804-1869)

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

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Charles de Gaulle

(1890-1970)
French General and Statesman

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

(Umm, so is this where we tell 'France' and everyone else who hates America to "shut the heck up"?)

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. (True to 'politicians' as well!)

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Noah Webster

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles....This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."

(Noah Webster, History of the United States, 1832, public school textbook.)

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish Novelist and Poet
(1850-1894)


Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.


Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.


Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences

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Alexis de Tocqueville

I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad .... Its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress ....

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Martin Luther

Germany Leader of the Protestant Reformation
(1483-1546)

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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Pauline Phillips

The Original "Dear Abby"

Defines Maturity As

To be able to stick with a job until it's finished;
to do one's duty without being supervised;
to be able to carry money without spending it;
and to be able to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

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Educational Quotes

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charles P. Steinmetz

Only the educated are FREE.

Epictetus

Give me a fish and I eat for a day, teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

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I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading.
Thomas B. Macauley

I cannot live without books. {Do I hear any AMENS out there?}

Thomas Jefferson

One Liners

Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you NOTHING~~it was here first.

R.J. Burdette

To do FOR the WORLD more than the world does for you~~that is success.

Henry Ford

Try NOT to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of VALUE.

Albert Einstein

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Lord Chesterfield

We are here TO ADD what we can TO, NOT GET what we can from LIFE.

Sir William Osler

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Albert Camus

French writer
(1913-1960)

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. {Ah, so this explains why the leftist media puppets ARE so terrible...}

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. {Explains the many angry people today on our planet.}

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President James K. Polk

11th President
(1795-1849)

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of Government myself rather than entrust the public business to subord. {Must have been when there were only a dozen government employees......instead of millions; oh, where did we go wrong?}

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. {Don't tell me this country was NOT founded by religious men. The proof is in their own words and writing.}

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. {This means Christians too......}



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Will Rogers

U.S. Humorist and Actor
(1879-1935)

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."



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Stephen Crane

U.S. Writer
"The Red Badge of Courage"
(1871-1900)


A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

(See, the universe does NOT revolve around you....or me....or anyone. It revolves around us all. Each man and woman, in their own unique way is special. One is NOT more important than another.)


You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

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John Adams

2nd U.S. President (Father of President Samuel Adams)

(1735-1826)

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.



Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.


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