• “Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.” Friedrich Nietzsche #
• “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonl … #
• “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus #
• “When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.” Eug … #
• “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.” Edvard Teller #
• “A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.” Napoleon Bonaparte #
• “Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.” Napoleon Bonaparte #
• “Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even f … #
• “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” Thomas Jefferson #
• ”You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” James Thurber #
• “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, … #
• “If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the s … #
• ”Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without l … #
• “History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure … #
• “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Mar … #
• “Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.” John Simon #
• “Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.” Sen … #
• “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard … #
• “In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.” Chris Patten #
• “When the government fears the people, that is LIBERTY. When people fear the government, that is TYRANNY.” Author Unknown #
• “It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.” Marcus Tullius Cicero #
• “Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.” Charles Caleb Cotton #
• “Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.” African proverb #
• “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” Ma … #
• “Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.” John Stuart Mill #
• “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” Laurens van der Post #
• “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker #
• “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” Saul Bellow #
• “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle #
• “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.” Thomas A. Edison #
• “Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as ‘sentimental’, ‘impractical’, or ‘womanish’, etc., by those whose fun, profit or … #
• “To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them a … #
• “Democracies don’t prepare well for things that have never happened before.” Richard A. Clarke, former White House counter- terrorism chief. #
• “Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and … #
• “Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.” Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister #
• “A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.” Bill Vaughan #
• “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus #
• “I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. #
• “It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.” John Mayard Keynes #
• “Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.” Clement Atlee #

My lovely friend Lee clued me in to Proverbs 4:23, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Thanks Lee.

The wonderful response from Lee when I asked, “I would love that heart quote and where it is in the Bible when you have a chance…”

“Proverbs 4:23

Here it is in a number of versions:

My favorite version is in the NIV — but all are good:
NIV: 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

The Message: 23Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts.

Amplified: 23Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. (WEB)

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life. (ASV)

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life. (BBE)

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life. (DBY)

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. (KJV)

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. (WBS)

Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; for out of it are the issues of life. (JPS)

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it ‘are’ the outgoings of life. (YLT)”

That was amazing! Thanks Lee!