Intoduction

I am not suggesting or putting my approval on any of these people quoted below. I certanily don't agree will all of them or support all of their beliefs. I am saying that these particular sayings are good and I agree with them. For example, I like a lot of Ronald Reagan sayings and the way he ran the country, but that doesn't mean I like everything that he stood for or decisions that he made as my president. The same goes for the rest of the people that are quoted here. I do believe that I can learn from others, things to do and things not to do. How to live and how not to live. Even from heretics you can learn not what to believe and what doctrine and beliefs to avoid.

Abraham Lincoln "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" ******* "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." ******* "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." ******* "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ******* "'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." ******* "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." ******* "No man is poor who has had a godly mother." ******* "We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined that all things were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." *******

Barbara Bush “Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood ... but everyone has something to give.” *******

C.H. Mackintosh THOU AND THY HOUSE There is, I should say, a very serious error involved in a Christian parent's committing the training of his children to unconverted persons, or even to those whose hearts are not one with him as to separation from the world. It is natural that a child should look up to, and follow, the example of, one who has the training and management of him. Now, what can a teacher make of a child, save what he is himself? What principles can he instill, save those which govern his own mind, and form the basis of his own character? The same principle applies to the reading of books. A book is decidedly a silent teacher and former of the mind and character; if I am called to look well to the character and the principles of the living teacher, I am equally so to look to those of the silent teacher. I am quite convinced that in reference both to books and teachers we need to have our consciences stirred and instructed.  C.H. Mackintosh (1820-1896)

George Washington "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company" ******* "A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. " ******* "Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved." ******* "Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. " ******* "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. " ******* "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." ******* "Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." ******* "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." ******* "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ******* "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." ******* "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery." ******* "I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country." ******* "I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man." ******* "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ******* "If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War." ******* "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." ******* "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." ******* "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." ******* "It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world." ******* "It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it." ******* "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." ******* "Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals." ******* "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God." ******* "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." ******* "Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive." ******* "Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse." ******* "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." ******* "Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." ******* "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." ******* "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." ******* "Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."  ******* "The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon." ******* "The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it." ******* "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." ******* "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." ******* "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." ******* "There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." ******* "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."  ******* "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." ******* "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." ******* "War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will." ******* "We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience." ******* "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."   ******* "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."

George W. Bush “I have opinions of my own — strong opinions — but I don't always agree with them.” ******* "I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. " *******

Henry Ford "People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black." ******* "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." ******* "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." ******* "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." *******

Isaac Newton "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." *******

Mark Twain Warning! Mark Twain was an agnostic. An agnostic is one who denies the existence of God. We certainly don't agree with this false teaching. Just because you disagree with someone, does not mean you can't learn anything from that person. ******* "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." ******* "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." ******* "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read." ******* "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." ******* "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." ******* "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." ******* "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." ******* "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." ******* "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." ******* "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man." ******* "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." ******* "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." ******* "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." ******* "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." ******* "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." ******* "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ******* "It is easier to stay out than get out." ******* "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." ******* "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." ******* "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress." ******* "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." ******* "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." ******* "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." ******* "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." ******* "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." *******

Nancy Reagan "I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty." ******* "Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive." *******

Robert E Lee "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." ******* "Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." ******* "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."  ******* "I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it." ******* "I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."  ******* "I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."  ******* "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."  ******* "My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian."  ******* "Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."  ******* "Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character."  ******* "The devil's name is dullness."  ******* "The education of a man is never completed until he dies."  ******* "The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy."  ******* "This war is not about slavery." ******* "We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing." ******* "We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation." ******* "We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters." *******

Ronald Reagan The most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and preserver. ******* God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms. ******* Well, it's a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the Biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory, but the Biblical story of creation, should also be taught. ******* "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." ******* "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."

T. DeWitt Talmage BAD BOOKS However strong and exalted your character, never read a bad book. By the time you get through the first chapter you will see the drift. If you find the marks of the hoofs of the devil in the pictures, or in the style, or in the plot, away with it. You may tear your coat, or break a vase, and repair them again, but the point where the rip or fracture took place will always be evident. It takes less than an hour to do your heart a damage which no time can entirely repair. Look carefully over your child's library; see what book it is that he reads after he has gone to bed, with the gas turned upon the pillow. Do not always take it for granted that a book is good because it is a Sunday school book. As far as possible, know who wrote it, who illustrated it, who published it, who sold it. T. DeWitt Talmage (1832-1902)

Theodore Roosevelt "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'" *******

Thomas Jefferson "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." ******* "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." ******* "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper." ******* "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." ******* "Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." ******* "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied burst of emotion but the long and steady dedication of a lifetime."  ******* "A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have." *******

Will Rogers "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else." ******* "The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.  The one that's out always looks the best." *******     "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."  ******* "Even if you"re on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ******* "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." ******* "I'm not a real movie star.  I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago." ******* "I don't make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts." ******* "We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." ******* "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators." ******* "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself." ******* "The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other." *******

Unknown "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." ******* "A friend is someone who will help you move.  A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." ******* "A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong." ******* "Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." ******* "After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done." ******* "Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." ******* "Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?" ******* "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." ******* "Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it." ******* "Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." ******* "Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." ******* "Fools rush in where fools have been before." ******* "He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit." ******* "I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." ******* "In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." ******* "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." ******* "The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television." ******* "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." ******* "Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other." *******

Zig Ziglar "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. " *******

Woodrow Wilson

President Woodrow Wilson: " A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.....The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God, and spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture."