Category: Quote of the Day

“This motto may adorn their tombs, (Let tyrants come and view) “We rather seek these silent rooms Than live as slaves to you.” – Lemuel Haynes, 1775

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” – Montesquieu (1689 – 1755), French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher

“Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” 1 Corinthians 1:20 (KJV)

“Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.” – Micah 5:9 (KJV)

“Negative interest rates are Mammon’s Götterdämmerung. The money cult is bolstered by the idea that its huge and all-powerful deity will be even more huge and all-powerful tomorrow; if the opposite is demonstrably the case, then people’s faith in it begins to falter and fade. Negative interest rates are like an icy-cold bath for Mammon, causing its godhead to shrink a little more with every dip. People see that, and think, ‘I don’t want to worship his shrinking yarbles.’ Then they go and spend their own yarbles on anything they can find—fallow land, vacant houses, golden calves, boxes of brass …

“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” – John Adams

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” – Plato

“Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn ‘reasonable’ and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed are the final quarter keep you alive.” – Sinclair Lewis

“When politeness and orderliness are met with contempt and betrayal, do not be surprised if the response is something less polite, and less orderly.” – Glenn Harlan Reynolds

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must …

“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.” – Psalm 37:1-2, 7-9 (KJV)

“Western Europe presently exists in a state of anarcho-tyranny. The governments of Europe can’t prevent Islamic terror or migrant rapes, but it can arrest any citizen who worries about these awful acts on Facebook. The power of the state is increased at the cost of its citizens’ liberty — with no security in return.” – Scott Greer, in a Daily Caller opinion piece

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure, I’d face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. – from the poem, ‘Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff‘ by A.E. Housman (1859 – 1936)

“If the Internet is the ‘information superhighway,’ social media is the off ramp into a holding pen. As it was designed to be.” Ol’ Remus, in his Yer Ol’ Woodpile Report blog

“Cage of freedom That’s our prison Where the jailer and captive combine Cage of freedom Cast in power All the trappings of our own design Blind ambition Steals our reason We’re soon behind those invisible bars On the inside Looking outside To make it safer we double the guard Cage of freedom There’s no escaping We fabricated a world of our own Cage of freedom, growing smaller ‘Til every wall now touches the skin Cage of freedom, filled with treason Changing sides as the losses begin Our suspicion tries escaping But they step up the security There’s no exit–there’s no …