Jim’s Quote of the Day:
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." – James Bovard (1994)
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." – James Bovard (1994)
"The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients." – Edmund Burke (1899)
“The people of Kansas have clearly expressed their sovereign will. It is my hope that upon further review, you will see their right to do so.” – Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, it a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
Harry: I’m sorry doctor, I can’t pay you, I haven’t got any money. Dr. Strong: Money is one of the first symbols that disappeared. Tell you what I could use though… Some ammunition if you can spare it, I have a .45 too you know… Harry: I only have a few, I can let you have four. Dr. Strong: Don’t short yourself now. Harry: That’s alright, The war’s over – we won. Dr. Strong: Well, ding, ding for us! – Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and Dr. Powell Strong (Willis Bouchey) bartering for medical services rendered in the movie, …
"A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it." – Colonel Jeff Cooper
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them]. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from …
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the …
“What the American public doesn’t know is what makes them the American public, all right?” – Dan Ackroyd as Ray Zalinsky, in the 1995 movie Tommy Boy
“Therefore do not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities after so many years’ possession, but rather their own sloth, because in quiet times they never thought there could be a change (it is a common defect in man not to make any provision in the calm against the tempest.)” – Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." – General Douglas MacArthur
“I’m not here as an FBI Agent. I’m here to help you.” – Richard T. Jones as FBI Agent James Ellison, in Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles
"Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it." – Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” – Mark 10:15 (KJV)
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.” – Proverbs 26:11 (KJV)
"Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently trifling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify." – Samuel Adams, A State of the Rights of the Colonists, 1772