INTO THE LIGHT: June 2010

Definitely Not Dumb.

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Aristotle

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience." James Freeman Clarke

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast." Robert G. Ingersoll

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." Susan B. Anthony

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." Marie De Beausaco

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots, What is it? Distrust." Demosthenes

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Jesus Christ