scottkelley80’s Submitted Quotes

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier

Honesty is more than truth-telling; it's refusing to manipulate others.

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. It comes from taking responsibility when you do the wrong thing.

Innovation is the application of technology to solve human problems.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

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

I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.