Category: Quote of the Day

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine

“Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.” – 1 Timothy 1:4 (KJV)

“They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.” Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their …

“There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – Adam Smith

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” – James Madison

“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.” – Michael Shermer

“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” – James Madison

“And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.” – Matthew 8:2-3 (KJV)

“But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou …

“The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.” – Horace Kephart, Camping and Woodcraft, 1917

“You know rather than the recession being resisted, it should be embraced. Because the disease is all this debt financed consumption, and the cure is we stop consuming and start saving and producing again, and that’s a recession. You know sometimes medicine taste bad but you got to swallow it.” – Peter Schiff

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809)

“When you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are like mice trying to ‘negotiate’ with owls. You regard their ways as ‘wrong.’ They regard you as dinner.” – Terry Goodkind

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” – John Philpot Curran, in a speech in Dublin, Ireland on July 10, 1790