Belief Quotes

"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin."

- Wendell Willkie

"A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Live your beliefs, and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass!"

- Paul J. Meyer

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

- Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government."

- Thomas Jefferson

"This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us — speaks to us of the past, or the men and women who went before us, and of the records they wrote upon it."

- Woodrow Wilson

"in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I stand for peace, honor, truth and justice. I stand for freedom. I am confident. I am arrogant. I am proud."

- Howard Schnauber

"Our flag is our national ensign, pure and simple, behold it! Listen to it! Every star has a tongue, every stripe is articulate."

- Robert C. Winthrop

"O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave/O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

- Francis Scott Key

"You're the emblem of the land I love, the home of the free and the brave."

- George M. Cohan

"When we honor our flag, we honor what we stand for as a nation—freedom, equality, justice, and hope."

- Ronald Reagan

"We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty."

- George Washington

"Beer, its the best damn drink the the world."

- Jack Nicholson

"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a Champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"

- Martin Luther

"I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink."

- Richard Burton

"But Champagne is not drinking."

- David Niven

"A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."

- W. C. Fields

"If I cannot drink bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go."

- Mark Twain

"Oh! little four-leaf clover, I will believe in you; Let those who will be scornful— I know you've told me true."

- Bertha J. Sherwood

"Good morning! The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

"There are many flags in many lands, There are flags of many hue, But there is no flag however grand, Like our own red, white and blue. Say hurrah for our flag, Our country’s flag, It’s stripes and it’s bright stars too. But there is no flag however grand, Like our own red, white and blue."