The Notes Part 3

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[image]Whittaker Chambers My eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear. Those intricate perfect ears the thought pa.s.sed through my mind-no those ears were not (as the comms. say) created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature. I didn't know it at the time but G.o.d had laid his finger on my forehead.

[image]Thomas Jefferson The G.o.d who gave us life gave us liberty-can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of G.o.d?

[image]George Was.h.i.+ngton Despair my fellow countrymen of ever teaching citizens.h.i.+p save on the basis of immorality & abandon all hope of teaching morality on any other foundation than religion for the nation that forgot G.o.d has never been allowed to endure.

[image]Patrick Henry Perfect freedom is necessary to the health & vigor of both commerce & citizens.h.i.+p & both will have freedom concurrently or neither will have it at all.

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We have it within our power to begin the world over again.

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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

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I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past. have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.

[image]John d.i.c.kinson, Signer, Declaration of Independence It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. We have counted the cost of this content & we find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.

[image]Abe Lincoln I should be the most presumptuous blockhead upon this footstool if I for one day thought that I could discharge the duties which have come upon me, since I came to this place, without the aid & enlightenment of one who is stronger & wiser than all others. should be the most presumptuous blockhead upon this footstool if I for one day thought that I could discharge the duties which have come upon me, since I came to this place, without the aid & enlightenment of one who is stronger & wiser than all others.

[image]Antigone to the Legislature: Sophocles You who are mortal cannot change the infallible, unwritten laws of heaven They did not begin today or yesterday, but they are everlasting & none can tell the hour that saw their birth. I would not from fear of any human edict, incur the G.o.d-inflicted penalty of disobeying divine law.

[image]William Penn If men will not be governed by G.o.d (that is to be honest, truthful, diligent, fair & just to all) then they must be governed by tyrants.

[image]Numbers 6:2426 The Lord bless thee & keep thee. The Lord make his face to s.h.i.+ne upon thee & be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee & give thee peace.

[image]Commandments Thou shalt love the Lord thy G.o.d with all thy heart & with all thy soul & with all thy mind-this is the 1st & great commandment. (& the 2nd is like unto it).

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these 2 commandments, hang all the law & the prophets.

[image]Irish Blessing May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun s.h.i.+ne warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields & until we meet again, may G.o.d hold you in the hollow of his hand.

[image]The Rangers Prayer Oh G.o.d whose end is justice, Whose strength is all our stay, Be near & bless my mission as I go forth today. Let wisdom guide my actions, let courage fill my heart and help me, Lord, in every hour to do a Ranger's part. Protect when danger threatens, sustain when trails are rough; help me to keep my standard high and smile at each rebuff. When might comes down upon me, I pray thee, Lord, be nigh, whether lonely scout, or camped, under the Texas sky. Keep me, oh G.o.d, in life and when my days shall end, forgive my sins and take me in, For Jesus' sake, Amen.

[image]High Flight-John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split clouds-and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,I've chased the shouting wind along, and flungMy eager craft through footless halls of airs. ...Up, up the long, delirious, burning blueI've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trodThe high untrespa.s.sed sanct.i.ty of s.p.a.ce,Put out my hand, and touched the face of G.o.d.

(Written by a 19-year-old American volunteer with the Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed in training December 11, 1941) [image]Anonymous You cannot pray the Lord's prayer & even once say 'I,'You cannot pray the Lord's prayer & even once say 'my'You cannot pray the Lord's prayer & not include another;You cannot ask for daily bread & not include your brother.For others are included in each & every plea;From the very beginning it never once says me.

[Unknown, Christian Reader, Vol.32, No. 3]

[image]Isaiah 1:18 Come let us reason together.

[image]Isaiah 19:20 If ye be willing ye shall eat the good of the land-but if ye refuse & rebel-ye shall be devoured with the sword. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Thomas Jefferson Prior to Writing Dec. of Independence, Inscribed on Jefferson Memorial, Wash. D.C.

The G.o.d who gave us life gave us lib. Can the libs. of a nat. be secure when we have removed a conviction that these libs. are the gift of G.o.d?

[image]1962-St. N.Y. Proposed Prayer for Its Schools Almighty G.o.d we acknowledge our dependence on thee and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers & our country.-U.S. Supreme Ct. Ruled it Unconst.

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THE WORLD.

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[image]Sen. Fulbright It is possible that if Mao Tse Tung & Ho Chi Minh had not borne the t.i.tle of Communist but otherwise had done exactly what they have done in their 2 countries, we would have accepted their victories over their domestic rivals & lived with them in peace.

[image]Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Jay Urging a Strong Navy & Prompt Retailiation Against Any Aggressor Seizing or Hara.s.sing U.S. s.h.i.+pping: [image]

Speedy retaliation was necessary because an insult unanswered is the parent of many others."

[image]RR's Wisdom The path of history is littered with the bones of dead empires. If we are to follow we will have no decades or centuries for leisurely decay & disintegration. The enemy at our gates is combat lean & hard. Hungry for all we've created.

[image]Winston Churchill On the Day After Munich 1938-All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the 1st sip, the 1st foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year, unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor we ride again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

[image]Cicero We are taxed in our bread & wine-in our income & our investments-on our land & property-not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men-for foreign nations who bow to us & accept our largesse-& promise to a.s.sist in keeping the power-these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness-or when the treasury is bare-& surely it is becoming bare-were they bound to us by ties of love they would not ask for our gold-they hate & despise us-& who shall say we are worthy of more.

[image]Book Uncommon Sense by James McGregor Burns The way in which Ams. live, the quality of Am. life is the most important aspect of Am. foreign policy today. The Democratic & above all the open way in which we have faced our social & economic problems has been the most impressive & influential aspect of Am. foreign policy not only in dealing with the Soviet U. but in our relations with other peoples in the world. This has little to do with Am. security-it has much to do with the moral worth of the Am. Svc. & the standards it could set for the world ... The Am. declaration of independence is cited & copied throughout the emerging countries. Its precepts have proved contagious. At the very least Am. world leaders.h.i.+p should so act as not to dishonor the ideas it has given to the world; at the most, it should act so as to help make them a reality. But paradoxically this cannot be forced upon others; each people must make its own independence, achieve its own liberty & equality.

[image]Israeli Scientist Those nat's. which have put liberty ahead of equality have ended up doing better by equality than those with the reverse principles.

[image]Vladimir Lenin As long as capitalism & socialism exist we cannot live in peace. Socialists without ceasing to be socialists cannot oppose any kind of war.

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To tie one's hands in advance & to openly tell an enemy who is presently armed that we will will fight him & when is stupidity. fight him & when is stupidity.

[image]Andrei Gromyko "Foreign Policy-Soviet Union" 1975 The communist party subordinates all its theoretical & practical activity in the sphere of international relations to the task of strengthening the positions of socialism & in the interests of further developing & deepening the world revolutionary process.

[image]Pravda The world wide nature of our communist program is not mere talk but but all embracing & all blood soaked reality. all embracing & all blood soaked reality.

[image]Text Book If we could effectively kill the Nat. pride & patriotism of just one generation we will have won that country. Therefore there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of the citizen in general & the teenagers in particular.

[image]Dmitriy Manuilsky Lenin School for Pol. Warfare-1930s War to the hilt between communism & capitalism is inevitable. But today we are too weak to strike. Our day will come in 30 or 40 years. First we must lull the capitalist nations to sleep with the greatest overtures of peace & disarmament known in history, and when their guard is dropped, we shall smash them with our clenched fist.

[image]Russian Diplomat We'll be over to finish the takeover sooner than you think. You know that a mixed economy is not permanent & you have already mixed so much socialism with your formerly free ec. that you cannot take it back or change. You are coming all the way into full socialism. We don't have to fight you or urge you. We shall simply wait until you walk voluntarily into our camp.

[image]Alex Solzhenitsyn At one time there was no comparison between the strength of the U.S.S.R. and yours. Then it became equal to yours. Soon it will be 2 to 1 then 3 & finally it will be 51 and it is fully determined to destroy your society.

[image]Former Senator William Benton We must abolish the '48 Balkanized units each in turn into scores of hundreds of local dist. so as to compete with Soviet Russia.

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ON CHARACTER.

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[image]Ralph Waldo Emerson The hero is no braver than an ordinary man-but he is brave 5 min. longer.

[image]Anonymous Quotes The greatest liar has his believers. If a lie be believed for only an hour it has done its work. Falsehood flies & truth comes limping after; so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late; the tale has had its effect.

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Greatness is measured by your kindness, your ed. & intellect. By your modesty. Your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions & prejudices-your real caliber is measured by the consideration and thoughtfulness you have for others.

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A gentle[man] always says & does the kindest thing. gentle[man] always says & does the kindest thing.

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Liberty is always dangerous but it's the safest thing to have.

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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

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Reality may be a rough road but escape from it is a precipice.

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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Even moderation should not be practiced to excess.

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He who would have nothing to do with thorns should never attempt to gather flowers.

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People are lonely who build walls instead of bridges.

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Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

[image]Swiss Author Henri Frederic Amiel Truth is violated by falsehood but it is outraged by silence.

[image]Henry Marshall Out of the ghetto comes an Al Smith, Eddie Cantor, Sam Levinson, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth & a mil. others. They just couldn't understand that they didn't have a chance. They just couldn't be stopped from using disadvantages as advantages. They knew intuitively what Confucius had said, 'that defeat was not getting knocked down-but in not getting up.'

[image]Robert Browning Grow old with me-the best is yet to be-the last of life for which the first was made.

[image]Chinese Proverb The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right name.

[image]Goethe If everybody swept his own doorstep the whole world would be clean.

[image]Mao It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than to marry a man she loves.

[image]Thomas Jefferson HARMONY in the married state is the very 1st object to be aimed at. Happiness by the domestic fireside is the 1st boon of heaven.

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State a moral case to a plowman and a Professor. The farmer will decide it as well & often better because he has not been led astray by any artificial rules.

Letter to Grandson Warning Against Disputes with Students:Keep aloof from them as you would from an infected subject of yellow fever or pestilence. Consider yourself when with them as among the patients of bedlam needing medical care more than normal counsel. Be a listener only, keeping within yourself the habit of silence especially on politics No good can ever result from any attempts to set one of these fiery zealots to rights either on fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe & the opinions on which they will act. Get by them as you would by an angry bull. It is not a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

[image]Patrick Henry (Precepts Instilled In Him By His Uncle) To be true & first in all my dealings. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart. To keep my hands from picking & stealing. Not to covet other men's goods but to learn & labor truly to get my own living & to do my duty in that station of life unto which it shall please G.o.d to call me.

[image]Adam Smith, "The Wealth Of Nations"

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capital would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but a.s.sume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person but to no council or Sen. whatever and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly & presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

[image]Sydney Harris One way to distinguish truth from all its counterfeits is by its modesty: truth demands only to be heard among others while its counterfeits demand that others be silenced.

[image]James A. Garfield The men who succeed best in pub. life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

[image]Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn & complain-& most fools do.

[image]Mahatma Gandhi I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from different situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they solve their own difficulties. My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self respect & liberty.... This defense avails through the whole world may be against the individual register. have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from different situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they solve their own difficulties. My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self respect & liberty.... This defense avails through the whole world may be against the individual register.

[image]Gen. Petain After Fall Of France, WWII Our spirit of enjoyment was stronger than our spirit of sacrifice. We wanted to have more than we wanted to give. We spared effort and met disaster.

[image]Abe Lincoln If I were to try to read much less answer all of the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed of any other business. I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; & I mean to keep doing so until the end. I the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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Letter to his law partner: Don't let the wors.h.i.+p of the past or the confusion of the present interfere with realistic planning for the future.

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