Last modified: 21 Apr 99
Here are a few of my favorite quotes. Most relate directly to abortion, but some are just general wise sayings that I thought would fit nicely here. If you know of a good quote you'd like to see included here, e-mail me and I'll consider it.
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"If we remain silent now, we condemn not only the nearly born but also ourselves. America, if we sanction the brutal destruction of those who are not perfect, who are not chosen or who are not convenient, who are unseen or undefended, who among us would be spared?" - Sen Rick Santorum |
| "Nobody knows what he can't do until he tries." - Anonymous |
| "A 20th century camel swallower and gnat strainer is someone who breaks the law by speeding to get to a Bible study, and once he is there, tries to convince everyone how wrong it is to break the law in order to rescue a baby from death." - Rev. Matt Trewhella, co-founder of Missionaries to the Preborn |
| "A child need not be perfect to have a worthwhile life." - New Jersey Supreme Court |
| "Abortion is no favor to women. I know--I had one." - Olivia Ganz, AVA |
| "Abortion is too permanent to answer for a temporary problem." - Lee Ezell |
| "Abortion murders an unborn child. Once abortion is accepted, what logical arguments can be used to stop infanticide, euthanasia, and other forms of murder?" - The American Tradition, Family And Property |
| "Always put justice above the law, and when the law is unjust, challenge it directly." - William Penn |
| "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win the world is for enough good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke |
| "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. So send not to ask for whom the bell tolls--it tolls for thee." - John Donne |
| "At the present time, when rivers of blood and tears of innocent men, women and children are flowing in most parts of the world, it seems almost silly to be contending over the right to life of an unknowable atom of human flesh in the uterus of a woman. No, it is not silly. On the contrary, it is of transcendent importance that there be in this chaotic world one high spot, however small, which is safe against the deluge of immorality and savagery that is sweeping over us. That we, the medical profession, hold to the principle of the sacredness of human life and of the rights of the individual, even though unborn, is proof that humanity is not yet lost..." - Obstetrician Joseph D. DeLee, M.D., National Right to Life News, Sept. 29, 1983, p 6 |
| "At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortions in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraception." - Dr. Alfred Kinsey, April 1955 Conference on Induced Abortion |
| "By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, Feb. 3, 1994 |
| "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts." - Mother Theresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "Each child is sent into this world by God with a unique message to deliver, a new song to sing, a personal act of love to bestow." - John Powell, S.J. |
| "Contraception cannot be an expression of total self-giving because in contraception, something is done to oneself to destroy the power to conceive a child. That same selfishness that wants to prevent the child by contraception will grow until it wants to kill the child already conceived. We must fight selfishness with a true, generous and sacrificing love." - Mother Theresa of Calcutta |
| "Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other." - Malcolm Muggeridge |
| "Every abortion clinic should have a sign over the door that says 'OPEN BY PERMISSION OF THE CHURCHES IN THIS AREA.'" - Frances Schaeffer |
| "Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government." - Alexander Hamilton |
| "From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak--the unborn child--must go out into the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." - U.S. Supreme Court "justice" Harry Blackmun Regarding his opposition to the death penalty. |
| "God doesn't call us to do great things, but calls us to do small things with great love." - Mother Theresa |
| "Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He wuld not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies." - William Shakespeare |
| "He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." - Leonardo DaVinci |
| "He who has saved a single life it is though he has saved the entire world." - The Talmud |
| "How can you love God who you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor who you see, who you touch, with whom you live?" - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "Human development begins at fertilization..." - Chaffee, Ellen E., and Lytle, Ivan M., Basic Physiology and Anatomy, 4th ed., Lippincott, 1980 |
| "I am 83 years old. I cannot remain on this Court forever, and when I do step down, the confirmation process for my successor may well focus on the issue before us today." - Justice Harry Blackmun |
| "I'm opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions." - Governor Bill Clinton, September 26, 1986 letter to Arkansas Right To Life |
| "I do not believe that it is self-evident from the Bible that all abortions are murder." - President Bill Clinton |
| "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can." - Edward Everett Hyde |
| "I don't think the real answer to the abortion problem is changing the laws or the judicial system; what we need is changed hearts. We need a spiritual revival in our country." - Seattle Seahawks receiver Steve Largent, ALL About Issues, March 1990, p 12-15. |
| "I fear the power of choice over life or death at human hands. I see no human being whom I could ever trust with such power--not myself nor any other. Human wisdom and human integrity are not great enough" - Pearl S. Buck |
| "I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children--what an inhuman world without the aged." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "I just can't get their faces out of my mind, no matter how hard I try. And I realize I must never forget there but for fortune go you and I. I just couldn't believe my eyes; and I wanted to cry out loud, 'Can't you see there will be a terrible price to pay on Judgment Day?.'" - Randy Stonehill, Love Beyond Reason: "Who will save the children?" |
| "I set before you life and death...Choose life then, that you and your descendants may live." - God, Deuteronomy 30:19 |
| "I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people first. And find out about your next door neighbors." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "I wondered why Somebody didn't do Something...then I realized--I AM Somebody!" - Author Unknown |
| "I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life." - Jack Nicholson |
| "If a man loses reverence for any part of Life, he will lose his reverence for all of life." - Albert Schweitzer |
| "If it seems more disgraceful that a man be killed in his own home than in his field...how much more abominable is it to be considered to kill a fetus in the womb?" - John Calvin |
| "If the deliberate extinguishment of human life has any effect at all, it more likely tends to lower our respect for life and brutalize our values." - Robert M. Byrn, Prof. Law, Fordham U., An American Tragedy: The Supreme Court on Abortion, Byrn |
| "If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...The people will haved ceased to be their own rulers..." - Abraham Lincoln, First Inagural Address, March 4, 1861 |
| "If you feel abortion is murder--ACT LIKE IT!" - Operation Rescue |
| "Indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels." - Stephen Crane |
| "Instead of destroying LIFE, let us seek to destroy the conditions which make LIFE intolerable." - Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
| "It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." - Mother Theresa of Calcutta |
| "It is vital that the growing desire to have 'normal' babies does not erode our acceptance and care of those with disabilities." - Kenneth and Betty Lee Garver, Life Advocate, October 1994 |
| "It seems clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime." - Mahatma Gandhi |
| "It's the taking of a human life, and I'm not going to pay the government any money to pay for the taking of a human life." - Bishop Victor Balke Of The Diocese Of Crookston, Minnesota |
| "Let us make that one point--that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away. And give until it hurts--with a smile." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw |
| "Life is a flame that is always burning itself out. But it catches fire again every time a child is born." - George Bernard Shaw |
| "Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Murder is not debatable." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1917 |
| "Never was any generation of men intent upon the pursuit of happiness more advantageously placed to attain it who yet, with seeming deliberation, took the opposite course ÄÄ towards chaos, not order; towards breakdown, not stability; towards death, destruction and darkness, not life, creativity, and light." - Malcom Muggeridge |
| "New York courts have already acknowledged that, in the contemporary medical view, the child begins a separate life from the moment of conception." - Robert M. Byrn, Byrn v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp. |
| "No law can give me the right to do what is wrong." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "No problem is so big or serious that only the death of the helpless unborn baby will solve it." - Mrs. Nuala Scarisbrick, Admin. For Life Of U.K. |
| "No right is more fundamental than the right to life itself, and no innocent human life already begun can be deliberately terminated without offence to the Author of all life." - Nat'l Conf. Of Catholic Bishops |
| "No woman is the final arbiter about the disposition of her body and the embryonic human life flourishing therein." - Rabbi Bernard L. Berzon |
| "No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg. Abortion is a tragic attempt to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss." - Frederica Mathewes-Green |
| "Not only for every idle word must man render an account, but for every idle silence." - St. Ambrose |
| "Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night for the slain of my people." - God, Jeremiah 9:1 |
| "Once or twice a century an issue arises...so far-reaching in its consequences, and so deep in its foundations, that it calls every person to take a stand." - John T. Noonan |
| "Capere consistere et facere vistigiun / Take a stand and make a mark" |
| "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side." - J.R. Lowell |
| "Once you permit the killing of the unborn child...you are setting off a chain reaction that will eventually make you the victim." - Dr. R.A. Gallop, Univ. Of Montana |
| "One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are merely a statistic." - Josef Stalin |
| "Our goal is to make it as safe, legal, and normal to protect the innocent from murder as it is now safe, legal and normal to kill them" - Joseph Lapsley Foreman, co-founder of Operation Rescue |
| "Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception (they defined fertilization and conception to be the same) marks the beginning of the life of a human being--a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings." - Report, Subcommittee On Separation Of Powers To Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97 Congress, 1st Session, 1981, p. 7 |
| "Playboy had more to do than any other company with Roe v. Wade. We supplied the money for those early cases and actually wrote the amecus curiae for Roe." - Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine |
| "Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims." - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet |
| "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends upon retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it." - George Santayana, Life of Reason, Vol. 1 |
| "Roe vs. Wade was a declaration of war on defensless baby boys and girls in the womb whose only 'crime' is that they exist." - Dr. Wanda Franz, NRLC President |
| "Safe abortion is a euphemism." - Dr. Beverly McMillan, founder of 1st abortion clinic in miss. |
| "Since 1972, we have had 10 million babies be aborted. From 1992 to 2021, 10 million more babies will be aborted. That's 20 million black babies that could have kept circulating and having more children. My tax money is supporting a racist organization in Planned Parenthood. It was started by a woman who was a racist, an admitted racist, in Margaret Sanger. I'm very offended that my money is going to federally fund an organization that is more interested in eliminating the poor side of the community, instead of trying to help these girls." - Reggie White, defensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers. |
| "Talk is a National Institution, but it does not help the slave." - John Brown, Abolitionist |
| "The child by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth." - United Nations, Nov. 20, 1959, Declaration of the rights of the child |
| "The child's sob in the silence curses deeper than the strong man in his wrath." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children |
| "The greatest regret of my life has always been that I didn't have my baby...Nothing in the whole world is worth a baby. I realized as soon as it was too late, and I never stopped blaming myself." - Gloria Swanson |
| "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality." - Dante |
| "The issue is not whether abortion or euthanasia should be illegal, but whether Christians should ever make what men call "legal" the limit of what they do to love their neighbor." - Joseph Lapsley Foreman, co-founder of Operation Rescue, Shattering the Darkness |
| "The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder, and the use of pills and rings to prevent God's will is a great sin." - Fannie Lou Hammer, Civil Rights Leader, 1971 speech to feminist movement |
| "The mind bent on abortion 'rights' knows no bounds." - Paul deParrie, Life Advocate, June 1994, p. 43 |
| "The most important person on Earth is a mother...she has built something more magnificent than any cathedral--a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body." - Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty |
| "The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow Consitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it" - Abraham Lincoln |
| "The point that Women's Lib misses is that freely available abortion can make women more enslaved, not less." - Jill Knight, Member Of Parliament. |
| "The rights of all men are diminished when the rights of the one man are threatened." - John F. Kennedy |
| "The Roe framework, then, is clearly on a collision course with itself...I believe that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists throughout the pregnancy." - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor |
| "The Unborn child is a person, not property; our neighbor, not our belonging. It seems that even among the Church, an unborn child is viewed as property, rather than our neighbor. We are not concerned with trying to reach out to them with the Gospel and we deem them to be of less value than our own property. Most Chrsitians would be more willing to die fighting for their property than protect an innocent child from death." - Michael J. Foht, Missionary To The Preborn |
| "The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception." - M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94 |
| "Their destiny is destruction...and their Glory is their Shame." - God, Philippians 3:19 |
| "There are two kinds of injustice; the first is found in those who do an injury; the second in those who fail to protect another from injury when they can." - Cicero |
| "There are two victims in every abortion--a dead baby and a dead conscience." - Mother Theresa |
| "There is no right to privacy in the [U.S.] Constitution." - Judge Robert H. Bork |
| "There is something worse than children having children, and that is children killing children." - Kay James |
| "They are the ten commandments, not the ten suggestions." - Ted Koppel |
| "Through clever and constant propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell and vice versa, to consider the most wretched sort of life as heaven itself." - Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf," 1933 |
| "To have a growing, living human being inside of you, that's a special gift." - Danny De Vito, Actor, CNN interview |
| "To interrupt a pregnancy at any state is like cutting the link of a chain; the chain is broken no matter where the link is cut." - Dr. Landrum B. Shettles |
| "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "We hear the familiar cry that morals can't be legislated. This may be true, but behavior can be regulated. The law may not be able to make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me." - Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech merely to conceal our ideas." - Voltaire |
| "We're in a war...until recently all of the casualties have been on one side." - Don Treshman |
| "We, as a people, may have to experience the consequences of our own capacity for self-deception before we regain our right mind." - Rev. Charles Carroll |
| "What kind of message are we sending, that dead women don't matter, only dead abortionists?" - Vicki Conroy, Legal Action for Women |
| "When you clear away the fog of doublespeak, the radicalism of the Clinton proposal becomes clearer. No insurance company could refuse to cover abortion in its policies." - Congressman Henry J. Hyde, Referring to Clinton health plan |
| "When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door an the face of God." - John Churton Collins |
| "Woe to you if you do not succeed in defending life." - Pope John Paul II, Address to crowd in Denver, Colorado |
| "Working together we will meet the many challenges facing our movement as Roe begins to crumble and help build the best world possible for unborn children and other innocent human life." - Jacki Ragan, NRLC |
| "It ain't over til it's over." - Yogi Berra |
| "Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles." - Samuel Johnson |
| "Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." - Abbe Dimne, "Art of Thinking," 1928 |
| "Children love to learn, but hate to be taught." - Anonymous |
| "If you want children to improve, let them hear the nice things you say about them to others." - Dr. Haim Ginott |
| "We are all geniuses up to the age of ten." - Aldous Huxley |
| "I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back." - Phillips Brooks |
| "It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the Devil when he is the only explanation of it." - British author and clergyman Ronald Knox. |
| "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams, October 11, 1798 |
| "Our world is beginning to divide very rapidly into two classes of people: the biophiles and the necrophiles. The biophilic people are those who love life. The other class of people are the necrophiles ... the lovers of death." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1972 Celebrate Life address at St. Patrick's Cathedral. |