Steve

“During high school and college, when he worked for a radio station, “I routinely worked on the Sabbath,” he said. “When I left for law school—a huge new challenge in my life—my mother reminded me that in medical school in Philadelphia my father never studied on Sunday. He felt that he could do more in six days with the help of the Lord than he could do in seven days without it. . .”
― Richard E. Turley Jr., In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
― Thomas Paine, The Crisis

“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
― John Adams

“keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.”
― Howard Thurman