Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15 (KJV)
“If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15 (KJV)
“Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.” Deuteronomy 7:12-13 (KJV)
“Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.” – Lew Rockwell
“I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.” – Ayn Rand
“The most successful innovations are the ones that we stop noticing almost immediately. We often don’t appreciate the things we would least like to give up.” – Virginia Postrel
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” – Karl Popper
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato
“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” John 17:20-21 (KJV)
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Deuteronomy 1:29-31 (KJV)
“The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.” – Ron Paul
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.” – Isabel Paterson
“The most important possession you have is your name?never dishonor it.” David H. McNerney, United States Army, Medal of Honor
“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
“Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.” Matthew 23:1-3 (KJV)