Notable Quotes
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.
This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”
— Thurgood Marshall
“We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation,
which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support.
If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.”
— George Washington
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor,
the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer.
And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“There is no ‘moving on’ from corruption. To wave it away is to embolden the corrupt.
If we as a people do not care enough about the integrity of our laws and the proper limits of our government to enforce both,
those who flagrantly disregard those laws and those limits will not stop until they destroy everything we hold dear.”
— Laura Hollis
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
— George Orwell
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
— Herbert Hoover
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I’ve lost over 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed ”
— Michael Jordan