United States Supreme Court

from Agape Press
If truth is not tolerated, freedom is no longer free. To maintain our freedom we must fight for truth. Suppression never works.

from 60 years ago......

...compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

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George Washington

You cannot have a national morality apart from religious principals.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. {Uh, what happened? Cause liberals sure DON'T feel this way....}

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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John Foster Dulles

U.S. Secretary of State
(1888-1959)

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.


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Chester William Nimitz

American admiral
(1885-1966)

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

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~~Misc~~

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. If it is, then we should have it, if it is not, then we ought not to pretend that we have it.
~~Anna Shaw (1847-1919) American woman-suffrage leader ~~


It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~~Vice President Dick Cheney~~


Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
~~President John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States~~


A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
~~Joseph Campbell, American Writer~~

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~~Gertrude Stein, American author ~~


Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
~~Boris Pasternak, Russian Author (1890-1960)~~


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Galileo Galilei

Italian Astronomer
(1564-1642)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.



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Michael Jordan

American Basketball Player
(1963- )

I never thought a role model should be negative.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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Thomas Edison

American Inventor
(1847-1931)

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Accordingly, a "genius" is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.


The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.



If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.


Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.


The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.


I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. {Determination and perseverence will take you farther in life...}

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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Rosa Lee Parks

American civil-rights activist
(1913-2005)

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

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Ronald Reagan

American President
(1911-2004)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.


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Frederick Douglass

American Abolitionist
(1817-1895)

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

One and God make a majority.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

American General
(1820-1891)

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. (I'm sorry, this one just made me LOL. Guess the beast hasn't changed much....)

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish. (Guess neither beast, political or media, has changed all that much....)

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