Lori

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”
― John Adams, Familiar Letters of John Adams & His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution

“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist."15”
― Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement

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

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