“Do not wait for a national audience. Speak on any scale open to you, large or small—to your friends, your associates, your professional organizations, or any legitimate public forum. You can never tell when your words will reach the right mind at the right time. You will see no immediate results—but it is of such activities that public opinion is made.” – Ayn Rand
“In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est præparatio diligens.” (In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.) – Cicero, De Officiis (“On Duties”) (44 B.C.)
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – James 4:7 (KJV)
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.” – Habakkuk 2:3-4 (KJV)
“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all riches.” – Epicurus, Fragment 70
“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.” – Rod Serling, (creator of The Twilight Zone) in a speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” – – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“If you are in a church where the pastor refuses to teach the truth and take a stand, why do you stay there?” – Pastor Chuck Baldwin on churches having the answer to our current moral decline.
“It is sadly ironic that Americans are presently rushing to buy battle rifles, not so much because they fear terrorist attacks on their communities as much as they fear the depredations of our own legislators–our supposed ‘representatives’–in the District of Criminals.” – James Wesley, Rawles
“What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.” Acts 21:22-24 (KJV)
“And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.” – Judges 13:1 (KJV)
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” – Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the Next War
“Every day above earth is a good day.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
“Is that one of those new hundreds? You know, where they changed the picture of Ben Franklin? Look at him, yeah. He looks like the love child of-of, uh, Fred Mertz and Rosie O’Donnell! Yeah, that’s him, yeah. Get rid of it as soon as you can, lady. Look at it up in the light. You see that metal strip? That’s a tracking device!” – Mel Gibson as Jerry Fletcher, in Conspiracy Theory. (Screenplay by Brian Helgeland.)
“When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.” – A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher