Author's Favorite Quotes

"Laws that violate one's individual constitutional rights and fail to serve the positive humanitarian needs of society have no validity!"

Arthur C. Morgan , June 2025

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely!"

Acton, John, Dalton, (1887), a letter he wrote to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton, dated April 1887, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadded the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”

"A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its shoes on!"

Attributed to Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain) in 1910, after his death, but earlier versions of a similar messaging was attributed to Jonathan Swift in 1710, the author of "Gulliver's Travels."

“Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) "The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It" (1872)

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1732

"Everyone is entitled to exercise their individual civil rights, but a person's civil rights ends when their beliefs and actions infringe upon the civil rights of their neighbor. Everyone has a right to their beliefs, but no one has the right to impose their beliefs on thoes are not of the same mind and thought."



Arthur C. Morgan, 2025

"On the topic of freedom of speech; The First Amendment was constructed for the rights of individuals to speak truth to power and challenge corruption, authoritarianism and actions that harm individuals and communities. It was never intended to protect individuals or organizations that promote, circulate and or publish, falsehoods, disinformation, hate speech or slander or defame others for the sole purpose of self empowerment or the promotion of an ideology, narrative or agenda. Those who choose the path of hate and defamation should be held both criminally and civilly responsible to ensure that they will never have the ability to repeat that behavior."

Arthur C. Morgan , 2025