Kim Stringfellow > Kim's Quotes

“the triad of human perfection”: knowledge, judgment, and character.”
― Antonin Scalia, Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived

“The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.”
― William Howard Taft

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“There is no dignity
quite so impressive,
and no independence
quite so important,
as living within your means.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we endeavor to restrain the vicious, and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
― Calvin Coolidge

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
― Rene Descartes

“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?”
― Ben Carson