Category: Quote of the Day

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." – Henry David Thoreau

"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability." – Jerry Pournelle

"Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster." – Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies March 22, 1775

“And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” – Luke 16:31 (KJV)

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.” – Psalm 121:1-2 (KJV)

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." – Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk… ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I… no, no. I don’t, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without …

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." – H.L. Mencken

“In the long run… governments collapse, countries disappear, empires fall, and things hold their value much better than paper does.” – Emanuel Derman, physicist and financial analyst, in Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life, 2011

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck.’” – Robert A. Heinlein

“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, …

“Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”  – Proverbs 21:23 (KJV)

“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.” – José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera

“Our character is best revealed by the decisions we’ve made and the impact of these decisions on ourselves and others. Over time, the decisions we make–large and small–become the legacy we leave behind.” – Erwin Lutzer

“Never retreat alone, shoot without an object or lay down your gun until the last extremity.” – Private James Collins at King’s Mountain, 1780