Category: Quote of the Week

"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

"That the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." – Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

“We’re going to suspend your rights to protest, bear arms, privacy, and trial by jury.” “Why?” “To protect you from terrorists.” “Why do we need to be protected from terrorists?” “They hate you for your freedom.” – Reader “Nick Tha Swede,” commenting on an article about Mayor Bloomberg at The Politicker web site

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” – Thomas Jefferson

"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy." – Marshall McLuhan

“And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways [shall be] made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. Then said he to the multitude that came forth …

“My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.” – Proverbs 7:1-3 (KJV)

“When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.” – Grover Cleveland

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal." – F. A. Hayek

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." – James Madison