Lila Mable > Lila's Quotes

“I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“My place beside you, my blood for yours, 'till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world!”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“How many times in the last two days had she believed she was at the end of her strength, only to somehow find more?”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can’t change what’s true.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“I couldn't control that the Nazis considered me "subhuman." But I could control how I treated others.”
― Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Don't Tell the Nazis

“When I was little, Tato told me the story of a frog that was put in a pot of cool water. The pot was put on the stove to simmer, but it heated so gradually that the frog didn't realize it was being cooked until too late. That's how I felt about the Commandant and his plans for Viteretz. Each of his actions was worse than the last, but then we adjusted.”
― Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Don't Tell the Nazis

“It is said that when God wants to change the world, he sends a baby - perfectly timed to grow, learn, prepare, and then take action at the right moment.

But there are times when one baby won't suffice, when the challenges facing the world are just to great; and so instead of a great reformer or a few key thinkers, what is needed is a whole generation of leaders.

This happened in the sixth century B. C., and in the first decade of the Common Era, then again in the American Founding Generation.

We believe it is happening again today...”
― Oliver DeMille, Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Law and Charity Are Not the Same”
― Frederick Bastiat, The Law

“Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.”
― Bastiat, Frederick

“It's man's most basic and sacred stewardship-to serve as the guardian of his own behavior. And it's man's blackest and most fundamental evil to try and overthrow that stewardship”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Alliance

“I'm beginning to feel that same absolute determination that we cannot -must not!- simply sit back and accept cruelty and injustice. If we do, we become part of it.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Paul Adams stood up quickly. "We have not lost, Bryce," he whispered fiercely. "Not so long as the desire for freedom burns in the heart of one person. We have not lost!”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“...evil is always self-consuming. Even as Mannington overthrows the prime minister, he must himself begin to fear for his own security.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“...evil will never permanently triumph.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Who are you?" [Bryce] asked in a hoarse whisper
"Nathaniel Gorham." The man waited, expectantly, then his face fell. "You don't recognize it?"
Bryce could do no more than shake his head.
"Figures. If I'd said George Washington or Benjamin Franklin then you would have perked up. But Nathaniel Gorham? No... My name's right there next to theirs... At the bottom of the Constitution. Big as life, just like Ben's and General Washington's.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Well, there are all of the names you would recognize - Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Tom Paine, Paul Revere. There are over three hundred of us, actually. I wish all were as well known to this generation as the others. Every one played a part - along with thousands of others whose names are no in any history books.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“We gave the best blood of our generation to win liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Would you throw it away so cheaply? And with the very instrument we gave you to protect it?”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“When we drafted the Constitution we went to great lengths to provide a set of checks and balances between the three branches of government. That was the only way we saw to create a strong central government and yet still keep it from becoming a tyranny. Yet today, you have created numerous so-called government agencies that violate this system of checks and balances.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“I guess it is a little disconcerting," she said evenly, "for you and the Committee on Constitutional Reform to have young people who value this country and who understand what made it strong. That will certainly make your task more difficult.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Every generation has tended to look on the past with an air of condescension. I call it history snobbery, and your generation is smitten with one of the worst cases ever.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“...the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“It took nearly half an hour for the bus to creep forward until it approached the heavy, fortress-like building of the border check-point. When Bryce saw the high barbed-wire fence with it's V-shaped barrier on the top stretching off in both directions, he shook his head in disbelief. Two days ago, he had driven across this border between New York and Connecticut at about sixty-five mils an hour with hardly a second thought.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Everything can be taken from a (person) but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― David Emerald, The Power of TED

“To limit yourself to only what you know or think is possible can greatly reduce your creativity.”
― David Emerald, The Power of TED

“All of life’s experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve.”
― David Emerald, The Power of TED

“What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience,”
― David Emerald, The Power of TED

“It’s important to develop the habit of noticing the choices you are making.”
― David Emerald, The Power of TED

“He taught me to always ask myself whether I was leaving other people or situations better off than I found them.”
― David Emerald, The Power of TED