Inspirational Quotes

Dante Alighieri

Italian poet

“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

Jean de la Bruyère

French essayist and moralist

“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.”

Edmund Burke

English philosopher

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Marie Curie

French physicist

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

Patrick Henry

American patriot

“We are apt to close our eyes against a painful truth.”

Sinclair Lewis

American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”

James Madison

American politician and the fourth President of the United States

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

H. L. Mencken

American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, and satirist

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Twenty-sixth President of the United States

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”