Category: Quote of the Week

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” – Robert Heinlein

“I got a humpback mule, a plow, and a ‘tater patch, eggs that are gonna hatch someday. I got the Lord above and a good girl to love me. I’m the richest man in the world.” lyrics from “The Richest Man in the World” sung by Eddy Arnold, lyrics by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

“Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.” – Barry Goldwater

“The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington’s readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.” – William Greider

“A society that puts equality … ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.” – Milton Friedman

“That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.” – Romans 9:8 (KJV)

“And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because that …

“The ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and…the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the coercive sector.” – Henry Hazlitt

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.” – Buckminster Fuller

“A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.” – Milton Friedman

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” – I Corinthians 15:50 (KJV)

“And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.” – Genesis 24:12 (KJV)

“A tyranny based on … deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.” – Albert Einstein