Category: Quote of the Day

"The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice, the good of the people." – Aleksandr Wat, Polish poet (1900 – 1967)

"The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register." – Hans F. Sennholz

"The power to tax is the power to destroy." – John Marshall

“When I was a boy, I was told anyone can become President; I’m starting to believe it.” – Clarence Darrow

“9/11 has allowed the government to use fear to get unlimited power. But when you get power, it doesn’t mean you can quickly spring it on everybody, because that shocks and startles them. So you use the power a little bit at a time, and let the people get used to it, and in that way you never meet any opposition.” – Paul Craig Roberts

“Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out …

“If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or …

“They asked why we needed 30 round magazines. I thought about and considered the possibility that they may be right, so I ordered some 40 round magazines. Just doing my part.” – From a comment to an article about potential gun confiscations, published by Guns.com

“Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker.” (Most commonly translated: “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”) – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Even though he was an atheist and nihilist, he got a few things right.)

“Ninety-seven percent of Americans don’t live in New York City, don’t want to live in New York City and certainly don’t want a New York City mayor telling them how to live their lives. There is a resentment level to that.” – Erich Pratt, Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America

"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." – P. J. O’Rourke

"We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk." – Fenwick (1983)

“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any [man] deceive you: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am [Christ]; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for [such things] must needs be; but the end [shall] not [be] yet. …

“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there is] no unrighteousness in him.” – Psalm 92:12-15 (KJV)

"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at its worst, an intolerant one." – Thomas Paine