"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it." - Harry S. Truman

"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us." - Nancy Reagan

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." - Ronald Reagan

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'" - Lyndon Johnson

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato

"And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups." - Wendell Willkie

"Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." - Bill Clinton

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson

"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times." - Winston Churchill

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." - George Washington

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser." - Albert Einstein

"Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes." - George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Barry Goldwater

"No man is free who depends on his government for his sustenance, job, home, or hope." - John Perkins

"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for a President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal

"A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman of the next generation." - James Freeman Clarke

Politics

"A democracy will continue to exist until the time the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler, a Scottish professor at the University of Edinburgh (observation about the fall of the Greek Republic)

Democracy

"We tend to make our Christianity too simple. Jesus was tender and stern at the same time. He was a boon companion at happy feasts, yet he wept with sympathy for his brokenhearted friends. He did not try to escape hardship by dodging it; he knew how to find strength to carry the cross without being spiritually broken by it. That is the relief we have a right to seek." - Anonymous

Christianity

"Whatever makes men good Christians make them good citizens." - Daniel Webster

Citizenship

- Kenneth Boa. InterVarsity Press.

Want to read the classic works that helped shaped Western civilization but just don’t have the time? In these volumes, Boa presents an executive summary of some of the most important literary and theological contributions to historical Christianity, as well as a short author bio, key quotations, and historical and practical implications of each work, all in less than two hundred pages per volume.

A Taste of the Classics

"The Christian Assurance supremely is that God has not forgotten human need." - Cleland B. McAfee

Assurance

"The greatest temptation of religion is to become worship-centered instead of service-centered." - Charles L. Allen

Temptation

"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Consolation

"In a period of turbulence, both in individual lives and in the life of history, the church points to its symbols which show that despite restlessness and chaos there is an ultimate rest. This is the one message that the church always must preach. Today when I think of the generation in colleges and universities, this seems to be the most important message we can give them. In a disintegrating society, in the loss of symbols, in cynicism and the terrible feeling of emptiness, the church should show that there is another dimension to existence, there is still a source of fullness and of meaning and of truth. That is one thing the church can do for the free society."- Paul Tillich

Church

"Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you." - Corrie ten Boom

Holy Spirit

"Atheism: The belief that there was nothing and that nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason what so ever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs." - Unknown

Atheism

"Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." - Unknown

Death