Category: Quote of the Day

“Goodnight stars. Goodnight moon. Goodnight spooks on iChat, peeking into my room. Goodnight PRISM. Goodnight cell. Goodnight Verizon. Goodnight, Orwell.” – Radley Balko

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." – George Orwell, 1984

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” – Luke 21:34-36 (KJV)

“For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.”- Proverbs 24:6 (KJV)

“You either get out of the system or you make a major contribution of your wealth to the d*mn OTC derivative manufacturers and distributors. This broken banking system is still hiding their huge losses thanks to the political sell out by the gatekeepers of international accounting, the FASB. They have lost their souls to evil.” – Jim Sinclair

"Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end." – Lord Acton

"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)