Category: Quote of the Week

“The fact is clear and obvious, all national and most state elections are bogus. The corruption has congealed and hardened in place, there is no viable way to significantly influence governance at those levels much less change it. Their elections are their elections, not ours. Nothing of consequence can be changed this way. Elections are a roadblock, not a road. Congressional districting and other election rigging ensures fewer seats are actually contested than were in the Politburo of their late and lamented USSR. Their federal judges routinely set aside state referendums that offend their personal sensibilities, one more avenue of …

"I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth.  I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount.  Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupted." – Martin Luther

"Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble." – Proverbs …

“It’s the same old story. We’re told guns are responsible for murders and the ‘sour economy’ is responsible for a surge in robberies. Get real. Murderers are responsible for murders. The press likes the phrase gun violence. There are violent people but no such thing as violent guns. Likewise, robbers are responsible for robberies. It’s what they do. The economy, sour or otherwise, doesn’t commit robbery. Simple truth can be wrapped in delusions but it can’t be made complicated: criminals are responsible for crime. Hence the term ‘criminals’. Why suggest otherwise? What is society’s gain in these misdirections?” – Ol’ …

"Not he alone, nor the family that gathers at his table – But all men everywhere, fighting for Freedom’s cause, Are richer for his work. For the food he does not buy is theirs to have… In camps, in ships on every bloody sea, On battle fronts where food is life itself…. And in those dark and hungry lands now being freed – Where food is more than life… Where food means tyranny’s long hoped for end. The seeds of Victory are planted in his garden…" – An unattributed poem engraved on statue dedicated to World War II Victory Gardeners

"One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread.  The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost.  The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water.  Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting." – C.S. Lewis

"What we do in life echoes in eternity. " – Russell Crowe (as Maximus), Gladiator (Screenplay by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson)

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." – G.K. Chesterton

"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 21:36

"Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he himself will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will inherit good." – Proverbs 28:10

"Civilization only lasts as long as the citizens trust that they will have food tomorrow." – Orson Scott Card, in Sarah: Women of Genesis

"The Democrats must really love poor people.  They keep making more and more of them." – N.C. Lickey

"Inter arma enim silent leges." – Cicero (Usually translated: "In time of war the law falls silent".)

"The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden—that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time."  – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity