Taylor Caldwell Quotes

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.

~ Taylor Caldwell

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.

~ Taylor Caldwell

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

~ Taylor Caldwell

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

~ Taylor Caldwell

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.

~ Taylor Caldwell

We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

~ Taylor Caldwell

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

~ Taylor Caldwell

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

~ Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

~ Taylor Caldwell

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

~ Taylor Caldwell

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.

~ Taylor Caldwell

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

~ Taylor Caldwell

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

~ Taylor Caldwell