Harold Cruse quotes

Harold Cruse quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants.”
-- Harold Cruse

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“I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.”
“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”
“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.”
“The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.”
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”
“America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.”
“I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.”

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