‘If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.” – Sarah Palin, in a Facebook message on February 26, 2013.
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." – Socrates
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson, writing on the execution of Dr. Dodd, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 3, p. 167
"The number one, primary, superlative, over-arching pinnacle of survival preparedness is to GET RIGHT WITH GOD on His terms. Everything else is secondary. ARE YOU READY?" – Kim Noel
"Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers." – Exodus 18:21
"For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded people into submission or simply parting company." – Dr. Walter E. Williams
“Our enemies aren’t antigun, they’re anti-people-with-guns. It’s not the guns they hate…it’s us.” – Michael Bane
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security." – Thomas Jefferson
"We have looted the future to bribe the present, and at the bottom of the cliff the future is waiting for what we owe it." – Mark Steyn, in a lecture at Hillsdale College, January 29, 2013
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." – William Arthur Ward
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame.” – 1 Corinthians 15:33-34 (KJV)
“Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.” …
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." – James Madison, Federalist No. 46, 1788
"Do not suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretences of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice." – John Adams, 1789
"Participating in a gun buyback because you believe that the criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids." – From an anonymous e-mail on the Grassfire Mail List. (alert@grassrootsaction.com )