My Favorite Quotes

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"I believe strongly in the message of hope that I have held up to you, in the justice and love and truth that I have extolled, and in the peace that I have asked the Lord to give to all of you.
And now I must leave the United States and return to Rome. But all of you will constantly be remembered in my prayers, which I look upon as the best expression of my friendship.
Today, therefore, my final prayer is this: that God will bless America, so that she may increasingly become - and truly be - and long remain - One Nation, under God, indivisible. With liberty and justice for all.
God bless America!
God bless America!"
Ioannes Paulus II (John Paul II)

"Those who are willing to give up a little freedom for security deserve neither security nor freedom."
Benjamin Franklin

"Today, we need a nation of minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Fides et ratio binae quasi pennae videntur quibus veritatis ad contemplationem hominis attollitur animus. Deus autem ipse est qui veritatis cognoscendae studium hominum mentibus insevit, suique tandem etiam cognoscendi ut, cognoscentes Eum diligentesque, ad plenam pariter de se ipsis.
("Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth-in a word, to know himself-so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.")
Ioannes Paulus II (John Paul II)