Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” – George Orwell
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” – George Orwell
“It takes more and more effort to compress a spring, but when it goes to solid no amount of force is enough. We’re about there. Should a serious run on physical cash occur the public will suddenly become aware of what’s going on. The big picture. Conspiracy fact. Gold and silver will be next up for a run, particularly silver, together with brass-lead assemblies. Those already having physical currency and stashes of these metals should do well in their little corner of the world, the prudent ones at least. ” – Ol’ Remus, Editor of Yer Ol’ Woodpile Report
“Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.” – Murray Rothbard (in For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto)
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.” – P.J. O’Rourke
“Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?” – Robert Nozick
“But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.” 1 Corinthians 8:12 (KJV)
“And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the …
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” – Thomas Paine
“The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.” – Albert Jay Nock
“It will be a great day when taxpayers can keep all the money they earn, and professional sports teams have to hold bake sales to finance stadium construction.” – Doug Newman
“The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.” – Ludwig von Mises
“Now the Senate is looking for moderate judges, mainstream judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we’d like it to say?” – Antonin Scalia
“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” – Philippians 4:19-20 (KJV)
“Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.” …
“All the fiery rhetoric of the Founders was directed at a `tyrant’ who taxed his subjects at a rate of about three percent. Today, we in `the land of the free’ are taxed at about 50 percent when you add federal, state, and local taxes. What kind of government would do this? A dictatorship would. “ – Doug Newman