#in

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#assume #being #citizens #contented #critics

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#conspiracy #organized #politics #productive #unorganized

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#coming #freedom #little #mean #more

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#far #highly #how #how far #humility

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#bankrupt #borrowing #interest #let us #our

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#been #born #called #capacity #christmas

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

Wisdom begins in wonder. ↗

— Socrates

#begins #wonder

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

#am #i #i am #know #man