Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

Elizabeth Gaskell

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues”. –Elizabeth Gaskell

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

Jerry Falwell

“I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that he was a violent man, a man of war”. –Jerry Falwell

Martin Niemöller

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

Chiang Kai-shek

“Don’t be disquieted in times of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor”. –Chiang Kai-shek

Jesus Christ

“You shall know truth, and the truth shall set you free”. –Jesus Christ

Jesse Helms

“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they Slants, Beaners, or Niggers”. –Jesse Helms

Soren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”. –Soren Kierkegaard

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think”. –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Walter Raleigh

“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

John Milton

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

Edgar Cayce

“The Lord marks the fall of the smallest sparrow. He knows how so many in authority treat the infirm, and the aged. Look at the Napoleons, Cæsars, and the like. Rather than casting themselves in God’s image, they made Gods of themselves, and were destroyed”. –Edgar Cayce

Paul Tillich

“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being”. –Paul Tillich

Martin Luther King

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

John Calvin

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”. –John Calvin

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The ultimate test of a moral society is in the kind of world it leaves to its children”. –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Martin Luther

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”. –Martin Luther