Category: Quote of the Day

“Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.” – David Friedman

“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” – Albert Einstein

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” – Frederick Douglass

“There are, in fact and practice, two divisions of BATFE: they are Arbitrary, and Capricious. Everything they do has to have approval from one, and ideally both, divisions, before it gets handed down from on high as verbum dei. For some decades, that hurdle has not been too cumbersome on their limited intellects to allow passage of all manner of nonsense, being a speed bump the height of which is measured in layers of paint on a flat surface. Give their explosives lab to FBI, shift alcohol and tobacco revenue collection (sans any law enforcement capability whatsoever) over to Commerce, …

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” – Romans 9:14-15 (KJV)

God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord” Exodus 6:2 (KJV)

“Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.“ – Frank Chodorov

“Government doesn’t just do the wrong thing, it does the exact opposite of the right thing.” – Doug Casey

“Survival” means living through an involuntary situation of extended duration where death is a likely outcome. If it’s a voluntary situation it’s a misadventure. If it’s of short duration it’s a narrow escape. A lost hunter who overnights in the woods had a bad day. If he’s mauled by a bear but lives, he had a close call. It’s not survival. Stranded on an Arctic island is survival. It’s survival when you’re forced to make daily life-or-death choices, often between bad and worse, forced to discriminate ruthlessly between wants and needs, and to not obsess over the situation or its …

“If you live within five miles of a 7-11, you’re toast” – Paul Milne, commenting in the old Usenet newsgroup comp.software.year-2000

“A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot – because the first leads inevitably to the second.” – Harry Browne

“And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” – Luke 6:12 (KJV)

“And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.” – Exodus 1:7 (KJV)

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” – Samuel Adams