Oh god there’s so many so I’ll say the ones that come to mind
”if men were angles we wouldn’t need government”. James Madison it shows that even though we can’t really trust government we needed to have a society so we do need government but a limited one
“ Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin i think this quote speaks true to the times we’re in especially with Covid-19 the current most virulent strain of the virus Oma Cron is much like a bad cold so it is time for us to god back to our normal lives and going back to the other quote we need to go back to limited government
“there is nothing to fear but fear it’s self” FDR he was a good war time president (honestly bad Great Depression president due to government stepping in to much but we have crystal lodge the government jobs we’re a good idea the rest of his ideas were bad) but he was strong during WW2 so I have mixed views on him but it does tell us not to fear which again goes back to the crisis we’re in now there many more I could mention since I’m a historian but ima leave it here
Frankly, I have a ton, but the one that seems most pertinent to the present era in which the nation seems to find itself comes from 18th century British statesman and political philosopher, Edmund Burke:
"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do as they please. We ought see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations."
The other being, "The optimist believes that we are living in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that he is right."
The themes are a fear, love and justice the three things that drive human nature the most:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to Passover me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert (Dune)
All that’s necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Theresa
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jr.
"We accept the love we think we deserve." ~Stephen Chbosky
"A boy's best friend is his mother." ~Anthony Perkins
"We're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch, and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch." ~Anthony Perkins
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." ~JK Rowling
"Sexuality is fluid. Sex doesn't make us whole. And so, how could you ever be broken?" ~Sex Education
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." (Charlie Chaplin) That's pretty much my life method. There are many things that are frustrating but there are good things around the corner as well and sometimes it is easy to overlook the good things
I'd like all yours, I believe in all of them I really don't know my mind just kind of went blind I mean I have some of my own did I made up like Your life is your choice you should see who you want to be by the things you say and do
"The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word “impossible” as nothing more than motivation." - Donald Trump
"You're never lost if you don't care where you're going." - Daniel Boone "I have never been lost. But I have been bewildered a time or two." - Daniel Boone "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." - Lazarus Long "What? Me worry?" - Alfred E. Neuman "There are always possibilities." - Unknown "Murphy was an optimist." - O'Toole's corollary to Murphy's Law.
"Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing."
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Follow the path that you make for yourself, never follow the path of someone else I like this quote it makes me feel that if I followed the paths of others I could be going down the wrong path in life that could end me on drugs, etc.
"Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed" Roy Orbison
I truelyyyyy believe the second one u told 💯 one of my fav is by Abraham Lincoln's... it goes "Whatever you are, be a good one". And the reason is that it fits on every person in many ways.
