Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.” – James Bovard
“This soul in flames I offer Christ, to Thee.” – Jerome of Prague (as he burned at the stake.)
“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
“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” – James Madison
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?” – James 2:14-16 (KJV)
“Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day…” Deuteronomy 8:11 (KJV)
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.” – George Mason.
“Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.” – Richard Hooker
“Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.” – Benjamin Tucker
“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” – 2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV)
“He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.” – Proverbs 10:9 (KJV)
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” – Thomas Paine