Notable Quotables

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger
than all the hosts of error.  William Jennings Bryan

How forcible are right words.  Job 6:25

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds.  It was founded on the
principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the
rights of one man are threatened.  John F. Kennedy

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end do our duty as we
understand it.  Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict the future is to create it.  Peter Drucker

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart.  And though
there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give
things out of that.  Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.  Anais Nin

If we always do what we've always done, then we'll always get what we've got.  Author unknown

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.  Anne Frank

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you
could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the
tide will turn.  Harriet Beecher Stowe

The salvation of the state is watchfulness in the citizen.  H.B. Alexander

Laws and constitutions spring from the moral dispositions of the members of the state . . . law
and order deliver the soul . . .   Plato

A community, like an individual, has a work to do . . .   Aristotle

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in:  to bind up the nation's wounds . . .   
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address


                              Anyway

      People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered,
      Love them anyway!
      
      If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
      Do good anyway!
      
      If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
      Succeed anyway!
      
      The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
      Do good anyway!
      
      Honesty and frankness makes you vulnerable.
      Be honest and frank anyway!
      
      What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
      Build anyway!
      
      People really need help, but may attack you if you help them.
      Help people anyway!
      
      Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth.
      Give the world the best you've got anyway!
      
                               Mother Teresa (1910-1997)