Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“Gold remains the only financial asset that’s not simultaneously someone else’s liability.” – Doug Casey
“Gold remains the only financial asset that’s not simultaneously someone else’s liability.” – Doug Casey
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” – Albert Einstein
“I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.” – Harry Browne
“It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law … that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.” – H. L. Mencken
“Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.” – Barry Goldwater
“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us” – 1 Corinthians 5:6-7 (KJV)
“For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.” – Isaiah 54:7-8 (KJV)
“A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.” – Milton Friedman
“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” – James Madison
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King
“Neoconservatives tend to want more efficient government agencies; paleoconservatives want fewer government agencies.” – Thomas E. Woods
“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.” – Voltaire
He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.” – John 1:23 (KJV)
“I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?” – Isaiah 51:12-13 (KJV)
“I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even though I should see it fail, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue.” – Daniel Webster