Think About it -- Great Quotes

Think About It Think About it -- Great Quotes
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Carl Chinn

Oct 12, 2024

Saturday many of us were in a meeting and the discussion reminded me of a great quote I grew up with. In our small-town glass shop a sign hung on the wall behind the counter that declared, “Self-discipline is the yoke of free men.” It was so applicable to the topic at hand now decades later, that I had to share it.

I thought of the many other quotes I’ve recorded through the years and want to take this opportunity to share some of those here. I will list the source if there seems to be some level of consensus on such. Every one of these applies to responsible defenders.

This first one relates directly to the yoke of free men quote above. It says, “If we don't fix our own problems, someone else will fix them for us and we won't like the solution.”

“Sometimes doing your best isn’t good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.” Winston Churchill

"It is always the right time to do the right thing." Martin Luther King, Jr

“You cannot claim to value something if you are not willing to defend it” Kit Cessna

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” G.K. Chesterton

“Life turns out best for those who make the best of the way life turns out.”

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened " Rev. Billy Graham

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." Thomas Jefferson

"Sometimes you have to be brave rather than safe." Bazzel Baz

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Ben Franklin

“Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.” Adrian Rogers

“Truth. It may hurt you. It may cost you. It might embarrass you or worse. But it will always set you free.”

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing about it.” Albert Einstein

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