Category: Quote of the Day

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot

Dear Johnston:

Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you …

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.-John Quincy Adams

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.-William Wilberforce

A good reminder for all believers, myself especially.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. -Pope John Paul II

But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything.
He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist.
And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce …

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.-John Wayne

“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate
authority.”

–Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 22, 14 December …

“The moral precepts delivered in the sacred oracles form a part of the law of nature, are of the same origin and of the same obligation, operating universally and perpetually.”

–James Wilson (Of the Law of Nature, 1804); Reference: The Works …

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Quote from the 21st President Chester Arthur:

The extravagant expenditure of public …