"One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting." – C.S. Lewis
"What we do in life echoes in eternity. " – Russell Crowe (as Maximus), Gladiator (Screenplay by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson)
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." – G.K. Chesterton
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." – Luke 21:36
"Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he himself will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will inherit good." – Proverbs 28:10
"Civilization only lasts as long as the citizens trust that they will have food tomorrow." – Orson Scott Card, in Sarah: Women of Genesis
"The Democrats must really love poor people. They keep making more and more of them." – N.C. Lickey
"Inter arma enim silent leges." – Cicero (Usually translated: "In time of war the law falls silent".)
“We have staked the whole future of America’s civilization, not upon the power of the government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions…..upon the capacity of each and all of to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” – James Madison
"The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden—that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time." – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” – Romans 1:16 (KJV)
“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their …
"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." – Samuel Adams
“The condition of our country today? It’s kind of like folks listening to the band playing while the Titanic is sinking, and them asking them to play a different tune.” – Hal Brilliant
"You never want a serious crisis go to waste." – White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (February 9, 2009)
