Great Quotations!


 

I really like quotations! So I have a lot of favorites and this page is a little long, but I hope you like it and that you like my favorite quotations. 

They are in no order what so ever but I hope you read them all because they are really good!



"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of Reason." 

~Benjamin Franklin~ 

 

"The mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the recipe, for felicity." 

~Thomas Jefferson~ 


"If you judge people you have no time to love them." 

~Mother Teresa~ 


"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." 

~Thomas Paine~ 


"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." 

~John Adams~ 

 

"blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact." 

~George Eliot~ 

 

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't sit for a month." 

~Theodore Roosevelt~


"Those who give up essential Liberty, to preserve a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety."

~Benjamin Franklin~


"God grants Liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

~Daniel Webster~


“The Declaration of Independence only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it your self!”

~Benjamin Franklin~ 


  “Learning is not attained by chance It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

~Abigail Adams~


  “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”

~Noah Webster~


"The men who make a nation great are men who dare to die."

~Ballad of Princeton Battle~

By: Henry Van Dyke


"Wherever The real Power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression."

~James Madison~


"Do your duty in all things... You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less."

~Robert E. Lee~

 

“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than warm war is better than tribute.”

~James Madison~


“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficia appearance of being right.”

~Thomas Paine~


“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. what we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

~Thomas Paine~


“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”

~Benjamin Franklin~


"I fear the liberties of our Country will be buried in the tomb of a great nation."

~Robert E. Lee~


"I am neither an Aristocrat nor a Democrat I am a Christocrat."

~Benjamin Rush~


“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

~Thomas Paine~


"Never give in; never give in- never, never, never, never, in nothing great of small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force: Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

~Winston Churchill~


"A thorough knowledge of the bible is worth more then a college education."

~Theodore Roosevelt~


"Our obligations to our Country never cease but with our lives."

~John Adams~


"A man with God is always in the majority."

~John Knox~


"Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

~Thomas Jefferson~


"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."

~Thomas Jefferson~


"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower~


"The American dream is not just about money and material advancement. It is a dream of freedom."

~Alan Keyes~


"Is life so dear of peace so sweet to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"

~Patrick Henry~


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'what! You to? I thought I was the only one."

~C.S. Lewis~


"A Great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many."

~Thomas Jefferson~


"You are never to old to set another goal of dream a new dream."

~C. S. Lewis~


"You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your Government."

~Patrick Henry~


"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 Christan nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

~John Jay~


"The world does not need more Christian writers- it needs more good writers and composers who are Christians."

~C.S. Lewis~


"Every time you smile smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

~Mother Teresa~


  "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." 

~Benjamin Franklin


"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes." 

~Benjamin Franklin~ 


"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

~Robert E. Lee~

 

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." 

~Mother Teresa~ 


"Do not anticipate trouble of worry about what may never happen. Keep the sunlight." 

~Benjamin Franklin~ 


"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."  

~Benjamin Franklin~ 


"Whenever you are to do a thing though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."
~Thomas Jefferson~







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