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“They understood that America would not flourish without great help from all Americans.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“So Franklin, without feeling the need to explain himself much, is bluntly saying that “freedom requires virtue.” And that less virtue inevitably begets less freedom.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“Tocqueville put it as bluntly as Franklin or Adams had, writing: “Liberty cannot be established without morality.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law. Each individual must govern himself, and for this morality was plainly necessary.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country. Tocqueville also said that there was “no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“Since the Pilgrims came to our shores in 1620, religious freedom and religious tolerance have been the single most important principle of American life. This”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“That is what religious liberty was and is. The government essentially said, Yes, be religious. We will not only tolerate it; we will respect it and we will encourage it. But we cannot take sides or put our thumbs on the scales. But the understanding of this has been lost to many in modern America.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“You will act not on what your eyes and ears show you, but on what your mind thinks probable.”
― David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper

“Now I no longer believed that one man or even one group of men were responsible. There were too many connections, too many avenues of villainy. Too many men had too much power and knowledge, but none could be made to answer for their crimes because they hid themselves in endless mazes of deceit and fiction.”
― David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper

“I did it, Mrs. Maycott, because I am a patriot, and if a man loves his country he must uphold the principles of that country even if doing so may make him uncomfortable in his own heart and odious to his neighbors.”
― David Liss, The Whiskey Rebels

“Previously traumatized wild elephants appeared to regain a degree of faith in new humans once the matriarch has established trust with just one new human. But it must be the matriarch.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild

“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer: Learning about Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

“But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

“U.S. fecklessness encouraged Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to prepare for the 9/11 attacks.”
― Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works, Why It Should Terrify Us, How to Defeat It

“bin Laden survived to perpetrate 9/11. Since that horrible day, Americans – military and civilian alike – have remained prime targets of Islamic terrorism, both on American soil and abroad. Successful attacks, failed attacks and foiled attacks have been unrelenting and occasionally devastating.”
― Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works, Why It Should Terrify Us, How to Defeat It

“The Problem of Moral Relativism A central obstacle in the battle with jihadism is the West’s tendency to engage in moral relativism. By this I mean placing the failings of different cultures or religions on an equal footing – assigning them equal portions of blame.”
― Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works, Why It Should Terrify Us, How to Defeat It

“Michael Nagata, U.S. Special Operations commander in the Middle East, put it: [The United States does] not understand the movement, and until we do, we are not going to defeat it … We have not defeated the idea. We do not even understand the idea.177”
― Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works, Why It Should Terrify Us, How to Defeat It

“Radical Islam is spreading because no government or private entity has yet devoted the necessary time and resources to fully understand – let alone counter – the radical ideology”
― Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works, Why It Should Terrify Us, How to Defeat It

“All men are fools when it comes to love,’ the doctor murmured.”
― John Pilkington, The Witching Pool: A Justice Belstrang Mystery

“Logic is often cast aside, when fear and superstition run unchecked,’ my friend said.”
― John Pilkington, The Witching Pool: A Justice Belstrang Mystery

“It was all the same every year. And that’s how I liked it. I never wanted it to be different, not even a little bit. It’s funny. When you’re young, you always want things to change. You want to grow up. You want to go to new places, do new things. But in the end, it’s the things like Christmas, the things that are always the same, that you love the most.”
― Andrew Klavan, When Christmas Comes

“Yoseb could understand the boy’s anger, but he wanted another chance to talk to him, to tell Noa that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“How do you keep men happy?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company

“All of us, Mma Ramotswe thought, wanted something, even if we were unable to tell anybody exactly what it was that we wanted.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company

“Wise people had been replaced in the public estimation by that curious category of people—celebrities—who were, for the most part, shallow people not known for their wisdom. Where were the Nelson Mandelas of this world of celebrity?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company

“to people who are unhappy inside themselves. There is room for everyone. Everyone should be able to find somewhere on this earth to sit down.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company

“The decision to come out of hiding is our initiation rite into the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. It brings its own reward. We stand in the Truth that sets us free and live out of the Reality that makes us whole.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“To open yourself to another person, to stop lying about your loneliness and your fears, to be honest about your affections, and to tell others how much they mean to you—this openness is the triumph of the child over the pharisee and a sign of the dynamic presence of the Holy Spirit. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17).”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging