Joseph Kidd > Joseph's Quotes

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
― Jackie Robinson

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
― Jacques Cousteau

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Thomas Paine

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
― Louis L'Amour

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
― Samuel Adams

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
― Nicolas Gomez Davila

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.”
― Ayn Rand

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.”
― Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
― Ronald Reagan

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization”
― Ludwig von Mises

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman

“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎”
― Benjamin Netanyahu

“War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman

“down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.

“He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him.

“The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.”
― Raymond Chandler