“Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”— Frederick William Faber, Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and among Foreign Peoples (1842), p. 545Share
“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”— Frederick William FaberShare
“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”— Frederick William FaberShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“Your ultimate allegiance is not to the government, not to the state, not to nation, not to any man-made institution.”— Martin Luther King Jr.Share
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”— Nelson MandelaShare
“The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government.”— Charles DickensShare
