Favorite Quotes
“The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.” Calvin Coolidge
“That truth, having nothing to fear from investigation, must be pursued relentlessly in every discipline.” Pepperdine University, Mission Statement
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” William Penn
“We don’t have deficits because people are taxed too little. We have deficits because big government spends too much.” Ronald Reagan
“There is never any peace for those who resist God.” Francois Fenelon
“There is no free lunch.” Milton Friedman
“In economics, the majority is always wrong.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“We didn’t think it would be this bad”. (i.e, Measure G) Eugene Kadow/MSJC Board Chair
“Thou shalt not be a victim. thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shall not be a bystander.” Holocaust Museum, Washington. DC
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.” Daniel Webster
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mohatma Gandhi
“Without debate, without criticism, no administration and country can succeed and no republic can survive.” John F. Kennedy
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” Thomas Jefferson
“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
“Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place.” D.L. Moody
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
“God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6
“Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.” Martin Luther
