"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
John F. Kennedy
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
Patrick Henry
"An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
Patrick Henry
"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."
Patrick Henry
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, et al.
"The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!"
George Washington
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. "
Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! "
Benjamin Franklin
"No free man can be separated from his property but by his own act or fault"
John Adams
"In the first place the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in
accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back its responsibilities.
Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The state has an unconditional obligation
to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian
community! The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but
to put a spoke in the wheel itself."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"[If this call is neglected] I am determined to sustain myself for as long as possible, and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country."
Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis - Alamo
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."
Daniel Webster
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Daniel Webster
"The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.' He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation...."
Francis Scott Key
"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government."
Noah Webster
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principals of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
John Quincy Adams
"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
George Washington
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and Christian people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
John Jay
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsbile for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness anc corruption."
James A. Garfield
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Thomas Jefferson
"What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts."
Robert E. Lee
"The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."
Robert E. Lee
"For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed."
Robert E. Lee
"The race is not to them that's got the longest legs to run, nor the battle to that people that shoots the biggest gun."
Unknown texas soldier on the march to Appomattox in the middle of the night
"Misfortune noble borne is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius
"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The way to handle people is to treat them like chickens. Take away everything they have by plucking all their feathers and then throw them a few bread crumbs. They will then follow you forever."
Josef Stalin
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
Adolf Hitler
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
Adolf Hitler
"[If the South loses] it means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy. That our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will learn from Northern school books their version of the war, will be impressed by all of the influences of History and Education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision."
Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne
"If we are going to die, then let us die like men"
Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne
"I am not now nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or the political equality of a White and Black races. I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which will forever forbid the two races from living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man."
Abraham Lincoln
"Reader mine, I fear I have wearied you with too long a description of the battle of "Dead Angle." If so, please pardon me, as this is but a sample of the others which will now follow each other in rapid succession. And , furthermore, in stating the above facts, the half has not been told, but it will give you a faint idea of the hard battles and privations and hardships of the soldiers in that stormy epoch- who dies grandly, gloriously, nobly; dyeing the soil of old mother earth, and enriching the same with their crimson life's blood, while doing what? Only trying to protect their homes and families, their property, their constitution and their laws, that had been guaranteed to them as a heritage forever by their forefathers. They died for the faith that each state was separate sovereign government, as laid down by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of our fathers."
Sam Watkins
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan
"Once abolish the God and the Goverment becomes the God"
G.K. Chesterton
"Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe
"War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty."
Martin Luther
"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
St. Francis of Assisi
"A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country"
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it"
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"...If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?...Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."
Mother Teresa
"No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation."
Pope Benedict XVI
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamn piece of paper!"
George W. Bush
"If their princes exceed their bounds, Madam, no doubt they may be resisted, even by power. For there is neither greater honor, nor greater obedience, to be given to kings or princes, than God hath commanded to be given unto father and mother. But the father may be stricken with a frenzy, in which he would slay his children. If the children arise, join themselves together, apprehend the father, take the sword from him, bind his hands, and keep him in prison till his frenzy be overpast: think ye, Madam, that the children do any wrong? It is even so, Madam, with princes that would murder the children of God that are subjects unto them. Their blind zeal is nothing but a very mad frenzy, and therefore, to take the sword from them, to bind their hands, and to cast them into prison, till they be brought to a more sober mind, is no disobedience against princes, but just obedience, because it agreeth with the will of God."
John Knox responding to Mary Queen of Scots question to him:
"Think ye that subjects, having the power, may resist their princes?"
"In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland starving and outnumbered charged the fields at Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets, they fought like Scotsman, and won their freedom."
Mel Gibson in Braveheart
