Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” – Romans 15:1 (KJV)
“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” – Romans 15:1 (KJV)
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.” – Psalm 119:105 & 106 (KJV)
“It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress.” – David Friedman
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” John Locke
“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.” – Thomas Carlyle
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” – H.L. Mencken
“There are two kinds of people in this world– those who get things done and those who take credit for getting things done. Belong to the first group; there is much less competition.” Francis S. “Frank” Currey, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor.
“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.” – Phillipians 3:7 (KJV)
“Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.” – Isaiah 1:7 (KJV)
“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.” – Lord Acton
“The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.” – Henry Hazlitt
“Debt is cancer, it is killing our economy and killing the dreams of many Americans. There may be little you can do about the total national debt but you can control your own debt. Do so now!” – Jack Spirko
“Your word is your sacred bond; your legacy should be honesty, honor and trust.” – Chief Ernest Childers, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.” – Barry Goldwater
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” Matthew 21:12,13 (KJV)