Category: Quote of the Day

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” – John Philpot Curran, in a speech in Dublin, Ireland on July 10, 1790

“There was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before …

“And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.” – 2 Samuel 6:14-15 (KJV)

“Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.” – Mary Ruwart

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell

“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.” – Murray Rothbard

“We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” – Will Rogers

“If the state loses its grip over your mind, it loses the key to its very survival.” – Lew Rockwell

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:1-2 (KJV)

“…but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.” – Jeremiah 7:23-24 (KJV)

“Either we believe that the State exists to serve the individual or the individual exists to serve the State.” – from Letters of Ayn Rand

“At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.” – Virginia Postrel

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” – Karl Popper

‘”Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.’” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 – 1616) in Don Quixote, Book III Chapter 10

“The ability to refer to a document (or a person or any thing else) is in general a fundamental right of free speech to the same extent that speech is free. Making the reference with a hypertext link is more efficient but changes nothing else. . . . We cannot regard anyone as having the “right not to be referred to” without completely pulling the rug out from under free speech. . . .It is difficult to emphasize how important these issues are for society. The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for example, addresses the right …