Ignatius of Antioch

Saint Ignatius of Antioch (ca. A.D. 50-ca. 108) was a Syrian Catholic bishop, writer, and early church father. He was martyred for the faith by Roman authorities, likely by being thrown to wild animals at the Coliseum.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Letter to the Romans

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Quotes

The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

Before a mad scientist goes mad, there’s probably a time when he’s only partially mad. And this is the time when he’s going to throw his best parties.

Jack Handey

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Henry Ford

One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

Thomas Sowell

A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.

John Paul II

Duck diplomacy . . . means that you float along placidly on the surface, but underneath you are paddling like the dickens with your feet.

Unknown

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank

If the opposition is silent, the totalitarian system becomes a monster that devours its own children.

Mattias Desmet

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Charles Spurgeon

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Elbert Hubbard

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like the cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients of happiness.

Fulton Sheen

Just as in syllogistic arguments, granted one absurdity, others must needs follow; so in moral matters, given one absurdity, others must follow too.

Thomas Aquinas

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences for a whole nation.

Thomas Sowell

Moreover, the concentration of economic power in the hands of government is something every true friend of civil liberties should, by now, have learned to fear.

Robert George

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ballot box produces conformity without unanimity; the marketplace, unanimity without conformity.

Milton Friedman

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

For to answer objections made to a power given to a government, by saying it will never be exercised, is really admitting that the power ought not to be exercised, and therefore ought not to be granted.

Anonymous

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