Favorite Quotes

"Don't let school get in the way of your education" ~Mark Twain

It is essential, my son, in order that you may go through life with comfort to yourself, and usefulness to your fellow-creatures, that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government and passions. . . . you must soon come to the age when you must govern yourself. . . . It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them. Those duties are to God, to your fellow-creatures, and to yourself. ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.’ On these two commandments, Jesus Christ expressly says, ‘hang all the law and prophets;’ that is to say, the whole purpose of Divine Revelation is to inculcate them efficaciously upon the minds of men.

Letter from John Quincy Adams to His Son, September 1811



"Remember that the government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have" Barry Goldwater 1909-1998

" These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Samuel Adams http://history.hanover.edu/texts/adamss.html

"... toleration ought to be extended to all whose doctrines are not subversive of society." Samuel Adams pg 365 of TCHofUSA compiled by Hall

"Spread of the Gospel is the only escape from tyranny, and the only guaranty of that government which is 'an ordinance of Heaven to restrain the usupations of wicked men, to secure to all the enjoyment of their natural rights, and to promote the highest political interests and happiness of society." from Richard Frothingham's The Rise of the Republic 1890, reproduced in The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America compiled by Verna M Hall pg 348

"The world grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists experiment. They reject as false all that cannot be brought to the test of the laboratory or the dissecting-room..." From a ghost story The North Mail by Amelia B Edwards

It is not how much you have or don't have it is how much you give - pastor of soul'd out ministries (was on ABC's home makeover)

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty - Benjamin Franklin

"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution." - Abe Lincoln