Category: Quote of the Day

"In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity. – Thomas Sowell

“The issue is not the National Debt in terms of trillions of dollars.  The issue is actually the National Debt in terms of thousands of abortions; it’s the National Debt in terms of thousands of unwanted pregnancies; it’s the National Debt in terms of the epidemic of AIDS; it’s the National Debt in terms of moral promiscuity; the National Debt in terms of the destruction of family life – That’s the issue!” – Pastor Alistair Begg

“A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.” – The late Brian Crozier

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." – John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

“My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, …

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them]. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease …

“If you’re rich you get a bailout. If you’re poor you get a handout. And if you’re middle class you get left out.” – Keith Fitz-Gerald, as quoted at PeakProsperity.com

“It is difficult to tell what will happen. I happen to believe that eventually we will have a systemic crisis and everything will collapse. But the question is really between here and then. Will everything collapse with Dow Jones 20,000 or 50,000 or 10 million? Mr. Bernanke is a money printer and, believe me, if Mr. Romney wins the election the next Fed chairman will also be a money printer. And so it will go on. The Europeans will print money. The Chinese will print money. Everybody will print money and the purchasing power of paper money will go down. …

“It was a good plan… up ’til now.” – Zoe Saldana as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003. (Screenplay by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert.)

"If you don’t do anything, nothing will change." – Ernest Lamothe, Northern Vermonter, 1961

“Its called it ‘The American Dream’ because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – the late George Carlin (1937-2008)

A “must watch” video by Peter Schiff: Operation Screw: The Fed goes all-in on QE. The Fed is attempting to create another, larger housing bubble. What Does A $4 Trillion Fed Balance Sheet Mean For Gold And Oil? (Thanks to B.B. for the link.) G.G. sent this essay by Nicholas Eberstadt: A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic World War III: the unthinkable cost of preserving the petrodollar Items from The Economatrix: Mish:  Canadian Exports Collapse, Expect Plunge in GDP Jim Rogers:  QE3 Will Make The Fed “Look Like Fools Again” Why Wages for Jobs Aren’t Rising

“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out …

“And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and …

“If you want to be safe in life, move to places that the government can’t be bothered to provide you help in. These places tend to be clean, safe, prosperous, healthy and sane. At least until the government finds out that evil monoculturalists are trying to live this way without them. They insist that areas like this undergo improvamentation as soon as they can afford to get to them.” – Texas Arcane