Favorite Quotations: You can tell a lot about a person by the quotations that catch their imagination.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,

in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Milton Friedman

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life

of an individual and of nations alike."

Teddy Roosevelt 

“You can praise God by peeling a spud if you peel it to perfection.

Don’t compromise. Compromise is a language of the devil. Run

in God’s name and let the world stand back and wonder.”

J.D. Liddell in the movie Chariots of Fire

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a

body which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade

it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."

Thomas Jefferson

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,

powerful muscles, but no personality."

Albert Einstein

"Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period.

If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."

Jim Carrey

"Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured.

It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence."

Bill Hybels

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't

pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,

protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

Ronald Reagan

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government

has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

Ronald Reagan

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever

be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

Victor Hugo

“A man with God is always in the majority."

John Knox

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to

worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by

scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the ways of his cell."  

C.S. Lewis

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."  

Andy McIntyre

“My arrogance, sir, extends just as far as my conscience demands …impertinence lies, sir, with those who seek to influence a man to deny his beliefs!” 

Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."  

G.K. Chesterton

"Here then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study

God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it

is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of

intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy."  

R.C. Sproul

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions

than by putting those decisions in the hands of people

who pay no price for being wrong."

Thomas Sowell

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only

an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

Thomas Sowell