Big Sky Writer
Abraham Lincoln
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln
A speech at the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum in January 1838.
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“There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error: first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”
Francis Bacon, father of the scientific method
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“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
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“Humanism which has lost its Christian heritage cannot prevail in this competition. Thus during the past centuries and especially in recent decades, as the process became more acute, the alignment of forces was as follows: Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Address at Harvard University Commencemnt, 1978
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.”
Writer Dale Carnegie wrote this in his 1936 best-seller How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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