Taylor Caldwell Quotes

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• The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

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  Government, People, Arrogance

  "A Pillar of Iron". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1965.

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• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

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  Christmas, Holiday, Past

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• I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

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  Family, Christmas, Night

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• It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

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  Long, Up To You, World

  "Honoria". Essay by Taylor Caldwell (1957), republished in "The New American", Volume 19, No. 20, October 6, 2003.

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• Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

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  Murder, Mankind, Adore

  Taylor Caldwell (2016). “Captains and the Kings: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

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  People, Demand, Slavery

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• Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

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  Citizens, Virtue, Dies

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• Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

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  Animal, Men, Honest

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

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  Government, Hands, Giving

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• You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

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  Religious, War, Political Differences

  "The Devil's Advocate". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1952.

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• We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

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  Children, Parenting, Dangerous World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

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  Children, Fall, Grandparent

  "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

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  Travel, Adventure, Joy

  "The Sound of Thunder". Pt. I, Ch. 9. Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1957.

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• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

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  Way, Desperate, One Way

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• A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

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  Wise, Men, Neighbor

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

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  Money, Insightful, Desire

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• I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

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  Betrayal, Animal, Betrayed

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• One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

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  Government, Blame, Server

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

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  Women, Home, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

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  Men, Want

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• We are not old unless we desire to be.

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  Beauty, Desire

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• If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

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  Fall, Army, Evil

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• The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

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  Freedom, Work, Rome

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• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

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  Giving, Doe, Labels

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• I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

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  Ideas, Looks, World

  "The Search for a Soul". Book by Jess Stearn, 1972.

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