Author's Favorite Quotes

"Laws that violate one's individual constitutional rights and fail to serve the positive humanitarian needs of socieity 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)