“Self defense is moral clarity itself, a fundamental and honorable imperative. Political violence is not, it’s an attractive luxury for well fed malcontents. Beware, aggression often poses as preemptive self defense. Notice our serial warettes started in 1947 when the War Department became the Defense Department. No President has asked Congress to declare defense.” – Ol’ Remus, writing on his Yer Ol’ Woodpile Report blog
“Everyone’s values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.” – William Greider
“There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.” – Barry Goldwater
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin
“When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.” – John 6:15 (KJV)
“Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.” – Exodus 17:6 (KJV)
“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” – Robert Heinlein
“A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.” – Milton Friedman
“As the world’s finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.” – William Greider
“We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.” – Buckminster Fuller
’“We should always make a distinction that ‘right and wrong’ is a very different standard than ‘legal and illegal.’ The law is no substitute for morality.” – Edward Snowden, in a recent interview.
“For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, …
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.” – Exodus 13:1-2 (KJV)
“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