Category: Quote of the Day

"The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity.  The quest for power is childish."  – Max Lucado

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." – H.L. Mencken

"There are two dangers in not owning a farm: the belief that heat comes from the furnace and food comes from the supermarket." – Aldo Leopold

“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward …

“A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city: and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle.” – Proverbs 18:19 (KJV)

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." – Thomas Jefferson

“When the oil stops, everything stops, nothing left in the fountain Nobody wants paper money son, so you just well stop countin’ Can you break the horse, can you light the fire, what’s that I beg your pardon You best start thinking where food comes from and I hope you tend a good garden Getting down on the mountain, getting down on the mountain Don’t wanna be around when the sh*t goes down I’ll be gettin on down the mountain When the truck don’t run, the bread don’t come, have a hard time finding petrol Water ain’t runnin’ in the …

 "The man who has a garden and a library has everything." – Cicero

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." – James Madison (Speech at the House of Representatives, Dec. 10, 1794)

"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both." – James Madison (from a letter written to W.T. Barry, August. 4, 1822)

“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. For even when we were …

“And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” – Joel 2:28 (KJV)

"The Bank collects all taxes, fines, loans and interest, and the price of all properties which it sells and auctions. The Bank never goes broke. If the Bank runs out of money, the Banker may issue as much as needed by writing on any ordinary paper." – From the rules to the board game Monopoly.

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." – James Madison ("Political Observations," April 20, 1795)

"The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice." – Henry Hazlitt