“Know the Truth, and the Truth will Make you Free” – John 8:32

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” – Matthew 7:12

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” – Matthew: 22:39

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me” – Matthew 25:40

“Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil” – Proverbs 4:27

“Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out:
so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth – Proverbs 26:20

“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste,
and no city or house divided against itself will stand.” – Matthew 12:25

“Let your moderation be known unto all men.” – Philippians 4:5

“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”
– Aristotle
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“Moderation in everything.”
– Kleovoulos o Lindios, Ancient Greek pholosopher in the 6th century B.C.
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain
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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain
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“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing”
– Walt Disney
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking”
– Steve Jobs
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“What is more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”
– Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1751
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“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”
– Will Rogers
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“I do not need to tell you that
we are living in democracy’s hour of maximum danger.
Ours is an age of declining trust and growing extremism;
the spread of lies and the erosion of truth;
the primacy of an impulse for brute power and
a deadly dearth of compassion and of neighborliness.
This isn’t hyperbole.
It’s the raw, discernible, undeniable fact of the matter.”

… “And yet here is another fact:
From the beaches of Normandy to the rending of the Iron Curtain,
from Harriet Tubman to Alice Paul to John Lewis,
we’re our best selves when we build bridges, not walls —
when we act out of generosity, not greed —
when we lend a hand, not when we point fingers.”

… “To know that we have met and solved seemingly intractable problems in ages past should give us hope for years to come.

So what can we learn from the past?
That the perfect should not be the enemy of the good.
That compromise is the oxygen of democracy.
That our common life must be about the mediation of differences —
not the waging of unrelenting war.
What’s true in our own lives, yours and mine
— that we ought to love one another as we do ourselves —
is equally true in the life of the country.”
– Jon Meacham – November 7, 2021
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See also Quotes on Values & Morality from our Constitution & Forefathers (below) »

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …”

– First Amendment of the United States Constitution