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They are more than just words. They make up the fabric of what I believe, what we as conservatives hold true, and what ‘We The People’ used to change the world! Freedom, Truth, and Justice Let us not forget the wisdom of those who have gone before us.
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Frederick Douglass: Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
John Adams: There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
"Boston" Stanza 15 Ralph Waldo Emerson: For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Samuel Adams: It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.
Samuel Adams: If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Victor Frankl: Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Victor Frankl: We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. |
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Sir Winston Churchill: Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. John F. Kennedy: The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Albert Einstein: The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Voltaire: Love truth, and pardon error.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Thomas Jefferson: Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom
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Alexandar Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Aristotle: In justice is all virtues found in sum.
Socrates: Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
Benjamin Franklin: Without justice, courage is weak. |
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