Category Archives: history

“People react to fear, not love. They don’t teach that in Sunday school but it’s true.”—Richard Nixon

“Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country … Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through … Continue reading →

“If patriotism is ‘the last refuge of a scoundrel,’ it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.”—philosopher Ralph B. Perry

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”—Benjamin Franklin

“America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.”—James Madison, The Federalist Papers.

“Every time a riot develops, it helps George Wallace.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., February 1968.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”—Marcus Aurelius

“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.”—James Fenimore Cooper