Being a student of history Fr. Frog has collected many wise and witty sayings from both the famous and infamous of our past and present. These words of wisdom deal with life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the field of weaponcraft. All are applicable to modern life, and all are guaranteed to be politically incorrect. There may be occasional duplicates from past issues since I don't have the time to check.
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Sayings
#139
"Christians must not confuse 'climate change' with stewardship of the earth. They are not the same thing — not even close. The latter is biblical (Gen. 2:15), whereas the former is pagan (Rom.1:25). The entire climate change movement is grounded in the worship of Gaia ('mother earth') or what is more technically known as 'Gaia Theory' or the 'Gaia Hypothesis,' which was first introduced by scientist James Ephraim Lovelock (1919-2022). It is worship of the creation rather than the Creator, which is nothing other than environmental idolatry." — Darrell B. Harrison
"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it." — George Washington (1785)
"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness."— Samuel Adams (1778)
"Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest." — President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
"There are no perfect humans. Every single one of us has done or will do something that will deeply offend someone else or not age well. This applies to historical figures as well as important thinkers and writers. Their ideas, stories, and legacies are not diminished because of an alleged 'sin' according to modern woke acolytes. The correct response is to take their good with the bad and critically think about their ideas in the context of their time. It is wrong to rewrite or diminish writers ... because what they wrote might offend (or in all honestly might speak truth to) modern audiences." — Emmy Griffin
"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political." — Thomas Jefferson (18801)
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men." — John Adams (1776)
"Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established." -- Thomas Jefferson (1791)
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." — George Washington (1795)
"American urbanites with their culinary desires and electric cars couldn't survive without the rural folks who provide those things for them. Yet leftist city dwellers — a.k.a. Bidden voters — continually express contempt for the supposedly backwards bigots in fly-over country. It's no wonder the call for divorce resonates with many on both sides. What hope is there for this marriage? ... To answer our own question, it's federalism." — Nate Jackson
"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens." — Thomas Jefferson (1816)
"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully." — Thomas Paine (1776)
"Real women are being thrown to the shadows and cowed into silence for fear of being ostracized. They are being forced out of their private spaces, denied fair play in their sports, threatened, and belittled. Real women are only being celebrated if their victimhood status outranks the transgender woman or if they parrot leftist talking points. This is the Women's History Month that the radical Left wants. The only thing historical about it is how historically ridiculous and evil our culture has become." — Emmy Griffin
"How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism." — James Monroe (1788)
"The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge." — Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
"Words are important, and naming things is part of who we are as humans. But 'gender' is an example of a word that obfuscates rather than defines. The need to categorize and put people into boxes — to create an identity outside of who they were created to be — is leading people down paths that are not good for them. It's not enough to be a girl who likes sports or is more of a tomboy. According to gender ideology, she must really be a boy. A young man may be more sensitive and artistic or gentle. Ergo, according to the gender ideologues, he must really be a girl. Ironically, gender ideology is more rigid on social norms than the binary ever was. ... The sad reality is that people who believe in gender theory and gender ideology are constructing their own truth regardless of reality. This has real-world consequences and real-world costs." — Emmy Griffin
"Never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you." — Thomas Jefferson (1785)
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?" — Patrick Henry (17775)
"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether things are so." — "French philosopher Michel De Montaigne (1532-1592)
"A stable, committed marriage between a man and a woman is the foundation for the future. Homosexual ones will not create children. All the other sexual and gender ideologies are fraught with confusion and plagued with mental illness and are not the best environment for the prospering of children and family." — Emmy Griffin
"The question is not 'why are parents fighting so hard to ban pornography in elementary schools.' The question is 'why are left-wing teachers fighting so hard to include it.'" — Christopher F. Rufo
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." — James Madison (1829)
"For some reason, with hundreds of citizen kidnappings, far too many murders and an unfathomable number of Americans now dropping dead from cartel-supplied fentanyl poison, bipartisan elites cite concerns about diplomatic niceties and say our hands are tied. Nonsense. Our hands are not tied. ... It is time to rain hell on the cartels, stopping their illegal alien smuggling, fentanyl-peddling chemical warfare, thuggery, brutality and corruption once and for all." — Josh Hammer
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." — Thomas Jefferson (1824)
"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness." — George Washington (1793)
"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head." — Noah Webster ((1788)
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." — James Madison (1787)
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." — Thomass Paine (1791)
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." -- British Secretary to the Treasury Reginald McKenna (1863-1943)
"War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice." — Alexander Hamilton (1787)
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys." — Thomas Jefferson (1808)
"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained." — Joseph Story (1833)
"There is rarely accountability in the political class for devastating financial mismanagement. Worse, many politicos have figured out that there's a successful career to be built in appearing to ride to the rescue during crises they created." — Nate Jackson
"Here's a grim but telling statistic to chew on, courtesy of a new paper published by the Crime Prevention Research Center's John Lott: There are 3,007 counties in these United States, but a stunning 56% of our nation's murders occur in just 2% of those counties -- counties that contain cities like Philly, New York City, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, DC, Dallas, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Houston, and the like. Care to guess which political party runs each of those cities?" — Douglas Andrews
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." — George Washington (1796)
"The Judeo-Christian principles upon which our country was founded teach us to be tolerant and compassionate, but they don't tell us to abandon common sense. If we hope to change this corrosive course, we have to start by acknowledging a simple fact: The human species populated the world and created a civilization, for better or worse, through the union of man and woman. That was no accident. It was by design." — Peter Lemiska
"It's one thing to try to attract voters. It's another thing to do so by demonizing others and propagating lies from the pits of hell. Ultimately, we must engage and defeat the transgender industrialists no matter how loudly they shriek." — Douglas Andrews
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." — Thomas Jefferson (1821)
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." — Samuel Adams (1749)
"While we saw the worst of humanity, we also saw the best of humanity: in the police officers who ran into danger directly toward a killer with no regard for their own lives. Gratitude does not begin to cover it, for the utter selflessness of putting their lives between the killer and the innocent." — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
"The legacy media have a preset narrative machine when it comes to mass shootings. That narrative machine takes into account the identities of the shooter and the victims, and then churns out an explanation for the shooting. White shooter, black victims: systemic racism. Black shooter, white victims: alienation caused by systemic racism. Muslim shooter, gay victims: Christian homophobia. ... But if we truly wish to prevent future acts of violence by unhinged lunatics, we ought to utilize a lens other than the lie of victimhood." — Ben Shapiro
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." — Benjamin Franklin (1758)
"Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority." — Alexander Hamilton (1788))
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy." — Benjamin Franklin (1774)
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." — Thomas Paine (1776)
"Presidents should not be above the law, but neither should they face politically motivated charges." — John Stossel
"It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights." — Benjamin Franklin
"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." — Thomas Jefferson (1781)
"Americans on the Right are desperately worried about the future of their country and want a political savior to save it. But so many of them are working so hard to save their country that they risk their souls. Americans on the Left are so desperate to be their own gods that they've turned secularism into its own religion with its own priests, prophets, kings, liturgies and sacraments, and this religion will allow no competing religions in the public square. But Christ is Truth. Truth came out of the grave. Truth cannot be killed. It will pierce the hearts of those grown cold and make them warm and it will crush lies. Truth wins in the end and all our idols will turn to dust." — Erick Erickson
"In a nation of more than 330 million people, where more than 125 million citizens own firearms, mass assaults are rare, despite the 24/7 wall-to-wall commercial media churn to sell advertising. And on the subject of sensational headlines about the death of innocents, where does the MSM think mentally ill people get some of their inspiration for such attacks?" — Mark Alexander
"The three poisons of America's leftist cities are 1) high taxes, 2) schools that don't educate and 3) crime running rampant. ... Alas, our cities can't be saved if the voters in these metropolises don't want to be saved." — Stephen Moore
"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." — Samuel Adams (1775)
"The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite." — Alexander Hamilton (1787)
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." — educator and author Stephen Covey (1932-2012)
"As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature." — Alexander Hamilton (1788)
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." — John Marshall (1819))
"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections." — John Adams (1797)
"When Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour." — Benjamin Franklin (1771)
"No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable." — Jamees Madison (1788)
"Like every other household in America, if Washington wants to spend more, it needs to save more somewhere else. This isn't controversial — it's common sense. I invite the President to get serious and join Republicans at the table." — House Speaker Kevin McCarth
"The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right." — James Madison (1798)
"I'm the governor of one of the safest states in the country, where we also have some of the most flexible, pro-Second Amendment rules and laws in the country because we take those things very responsibly. We harden schools, we deal with mental health, especially in kids. We go after the core of the issue instead of saying, 'Well, we should just pass more laws.' If it were that easy, people would do it. But it's not. If it were that easy, even Democrats would do it. They didn't. So stop trying to take these tragedies, these human tragedies, and ... trying to make political fodder out of them. It's a real losing effort, I think, on the Democrats' part." — New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu
"It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition." -- Thomas Jefferson (1785)
"The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society." — Harry Browne (1933-2006)
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." — John Adams (1756)
The way to expand home ownership is not to undermine credit scores. It is to get lower-income earners to do what you did — pay their bills faithfully, live within their means, and save for the future. You shouldn't be punished for having done the right thing, and no one who didn't should be getting a reward." — Jeff Jacoby
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." — abolitionist Frederick Douglas (1818-1895)
"I think we should ask ourselves why so many young people desperately want to be someone else instead of themselves." — Tim Pool
"How did we get to a point where concern for children and a desire to assist women who want to bring healthy children into the world has been replaced by a desire to appease the anger of those who have a proprietary sense of their reproductive organs? ... The easy fix of getting rid of the baby is an example that in this society, we have simply abandoned the most compassionate and common-sense solutions for the easiest ones." — Christine Flowers
"When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who have been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker." — Tucker Carlson
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions ... if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment." — George Washington (17883)
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." — Thomas Jefferson (1816)
"Willful blindness is worse than stupidity because those willing to learn can remediate the latter. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." — Jordan Peterson
"The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with." — George Washington (1783)
"If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation." — Samuel Adams (1780)
"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head." — Noah Webster ((1788)
"The dividing line in America right now isn't between rich and poor, black and white, or even Democrat and Republican. It's between those who are fundamentally pro-American and those who are anti-American." — Vivek Ramaswamy
"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." — Thomas Jefferson (1781)
"The word 'compassion' is thrown around now as a thinly veiled threat: agree with us and support our policies, or we'll call you a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a transphobe; someone who wants children, the poor and the mentally ill to die. But real compassion requires real courage. Those who have real courage are willing to buck the crowd, not swim with it. They risk their jobs, their careers, their status — even their relationships with friends and family -- to take unpopular stances in pursuit of the truth." — Laura Hollis
"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck." — Thomas Jefferson (1822)
"Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected." — Joseph Story (1833
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." â€"John Adams (1770)
"It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled." — Mercy Warren (1805)
"Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word 'Order.'" — English jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." — George Washington (1796)
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