“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” – President John F. Kennedy, commenting on what is now known as the Deep State
“They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.” – Edward Snowden
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the …
“Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? …
“When you need it, and don’t have it… …you sing a different tune.” – Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, in Tremors II, Aftershocks. (Screenplay by Brent Maddock, S.S. Wilson, and Ron Underwood.)
“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The founding fathers mistrusted a government where the government holds all the guns and the citizens have no guns. Personally, I’d rather live in a nation where the citizens have guns and the government is underarmed. I would not want to live in a country where the government has the guns and the citizens do not. One of the first things the Nazis did in Germany was take away all the guns of the citizens. This meant that the government could do anything it wanted while the citizens were unable to object. As a Jew, I am fearful of a …
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” – Jonathan Swift
“Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.” – Pete Cashmore, Founder and CEO of Mashable
“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.” – H. L. Mencken
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there …
“Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, …
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.” – Ronald Reagan
“As I read the Second Amendment, it doesn’t say the right to bear arms shall not be infringed unless the gun has scary features.” – Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” – Mohandas Gandhi
