“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
-Ronald Reagan
Category Archives: Quotes
Freedom
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine
Politics
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
-Plato
American Dream
“There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.“
-Archibald MacLeish
Patriotism
“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”
-James Bryce
First Law of Nature
“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty…. The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”
-St. George Tucker
The People’s Government
“The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.”
-Daniel Webster
Fighting Done By Fools
“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
-Thucydides
Opportunity
“Opportunity is missed by most because is it dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
-Thomas Edison
Character
”Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.”
-Norman Schwarzkopf
