“How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!” – Samuel Adams
Only Love Can Drive Out Hate
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King
Abuse of Words
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, factions, and division of society.” – John Adams
The Real Crisis We Face Today Is a Spiritual One
“The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.” -Ronald Reagan
The Great Enemy of the Salvation of Man
“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.” – Dr. Benjamin Rush
When People Are Universally Ignorant
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign invaders.” – Samuel Adams
If a Nation Expects to Be Ignorant and Free
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . It expects what never was and never will be.” -Thomas Jefferson
Equality in Liberty
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
The People Are the Government
Andrew Jackson said, “The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”
