Here are important quotes to learn, to remember, and to use.
ADDED: 14 March 2026
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(For those who do not understand his meaning, he is saying that just because something is legal it does not mean it is right - Dr. B. Carey)
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are.... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.... That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
"Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion."
- Thomas Jefferson - Detatched Memoranda, ca. 31 January, 1820
"In the Papal System, Government and Religion are in a manner consolidated, & that is found to be the worst of Govts. In most of the Govts. of the old world, the legal establishment of a particular religion and without or with very little toleration of others makes a part of the Political and Civil organization and there are few of the most enlightened judges who will maintain that the system has been favorable either to Religion or to Govt."
- Thomas Jefferson - Letter to Jasper Adams, September, 1833
ADDED: 05 March 2026
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
- The Holy Bible - John 3:16, KJV
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."
- Jesus Christ - The Holy Bible - Revelation 3:20, KJV
"When the law and the system can not or will not do their jobs any longer, then it is up to 'We The People' (The American citizen) to exercise our God-given and Constitutional rights, and do their jobs for them"
- Bishop Dr. Bradley Carey (Originally said while running for State Senate in 2000)
"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Trust those who deserve trust. Distrust those who would pluck your still beating heart from your body and watch the steam rise up from it in the morning...."
- Credited to Alexander the Great
"All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
- W. Clement Stone