Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
Sam Houston
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
13SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston
12SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father’s name.
Sam Houston
11SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people … and … becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression … it is a … sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.
Sam Houston
10SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
09SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
Calvin Coolidge
08SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
07SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
06SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
Calvin Coolidge
05SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.
Calvin Coolidge