Category Archives: History

Retro Quote – G.K. Chesterton

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

G.K. Chesterton

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Retro Quote – John Churton Collins

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”

John Churton Collins

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Retro Quote – Carl Jung

“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”

Carl Jung

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Retro Quote – C.S. Lewis

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.  It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

C.S. Lewis

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Retro Quote – Ernesto Guevara

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

– Ernesto “Ché” Guevara

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Retro Quote – John Lewis

“Yes, I was beaten, left bloody and unconscious.  But I never became bitter or hostile, never gave up.  I believe that somehow and some way if it becomes necessary to use our bodies to help redeem the soul of the nation, then we must do it.”

John Lewis

In Memoriam: John Lewis, 1940 – 2020

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Retro Quote – Texas Guinan

“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.”

– Texas Guinan

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Retro Quote – Ray Bradbury

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get people to stop reading them.”

Ray Bradbury

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Retro Quote – Wendell Berry

“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”

Wendell Berry

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Retro Quote – Booker T. Washington

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Booker T. Washington

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