Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
“Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
“Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not – and is not – a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a “barbed-wire entanglement” designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.” – Jacob Hornberger
“But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” – Romans 10:8 (KJV)
“I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.” – Isaiah 61:10 (KJV)
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” – Robert Heinlein
“The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.” – William Greider
“So many men and women have fought and died for the freedoms we enjoy as Americans… those freedoms don’t come free.” Thomas J. Kinsman, United States Army, Medal of Honor.
“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.” – Frederick Douglass
“When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, […and] place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent.” – Mencius, Chinese Philosopher, 372 – 289 BC
“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?” – Romans 11:1-2 (KJV)
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.” – Isaiah 60:1-2 (KJV)
“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