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 who are not of the same mind and thought."
Arthur C. Morgan, June 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 , November 2025
"If the United States would establish and adhere to enforcable slander laws, regardless of their origin, whether printed, digitally created, or media produced, then those who promote and circulate disinformation and lies could be held accountable both criminally and civilly. This would ensure civility within our society, higher credibility and acceptance of our governance and institutions. It would also ensure a higher level of efficacy of our representatives and inhibit unscrupulous individuals from pursuing and or obtaining political office or becoming leaders of commerce or industry."
Arthur C. Morgan, June, 2026
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke (1770) - Paraphrased from his book "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents." The actual quote states; "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, as a contemptible sacrifice in a contest which they do not support."