What's Your Favorite Quote?

My friend Heather shared this on Instagram this morning, and it perfectly sums up how I've felt my whole life, and the foundation upon which this site is moderated and run. Thank you all for being a part of My Mountain Town!


"I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away."
~Peter Viereck

“If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.”
~Anonymous

"Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense.

You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate."
~Rick Warren

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." 

~Robert Kennedy

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
~Robert Quillen

"What we see reveals us. And what we do with what we see distinguishes us."
~ Andrew Vachss

From Another Chance to Get It Right HC (2016 Edition)

"In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. Bitter internecine hatreds, based on such differences, are signs, not of earnestness of belief, but of that fanaticism which, whether religious or anti-religious, democratic or anti-democratic, is itself but a manifestation of the gloomy bigotry which has been the chief factor in the downfall of so many, many nations."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"There's a difference between interest and commitment.

When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results."
~Kenneth Blanchard

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"Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest."
~Theodore Roosevelt

"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens."
~Thomas Jefferson


From Women's Marches Around the World - Signs, Slogans, and Inspiration


From Glenda Miles

Happy President's Day everyone!

“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
~Thomas Jefferson