Category: Quote of the Day

“They say ‘America, love or leave it’, but I loved it, and it left me.” – Closing lyrics to “My Country, My A**”. (Foul language warning!)

Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce): “How does the, the thing work?” Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone): “Electricity: The high priest of false security.” – from the film: The Pearl of Death (1944). Screenplay by Bertram Millhauser.

“I got into the military because I like to shoot, not the other way around. They didn’t teach me how to shoot after I got into my uniform. I got into my uniform because I thought that I’d get a lot of ammunition.” – Colonel Jeff Cooper, speaking at a Doctors for Disaster Preparedness convention.

“Our forefathers didn’t bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.” – SurvivalBlog Reader Bill H.

“…investing in the stock market is a loser’s game. Just to get back to its 1999 level in real, inflation-adjusted terms, the Dow would have to hit 13,460.” – Gerald Celente

“Candles. I have a thing for candles anyway – so I love them. My theory is ‘buy them cheap, stack them deep’.” – Enola Gay, from her hands-on preparedness blog Paratus Familia.

“The preparation which Hezekiah prudently made against this storm that threatened him: He took counsel with his princes what he should do, what measures he should take, v. 3. With their advice he provided, 1. That the country should give him a cold reception, for he took care that he should find no water in it (and then his army must perish for thirst), or at least that there should be a scarcity of water, by which his army would be weakened and unfitted for service. A powerful army, if it want water but a few days, will be but …

“I think people are beginning to realize that this downturn in the economy has just begun. We are about three years into what will turn out to be a 20 year crisis, with no guarantee what survives. But something will survive, and a new day will dawn on this planet.” – From discussion forum post by The Unrepentant Cowboy (posted at Collapsenet)

“There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.” – Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

"A wayfaring man, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing along and terribly dejected. He inquired of her. "Who art thou?" "My name is Truth " she replied. "and for what cause, " he asked, "have you left the city, to dwell alone here in the wilderness?" She made answer, "Because in former times, falsehood was with few, but is now with all men, whether you would hear or speak." – The Fables of Aesop, Henry Altemus Company, 1899

“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success, than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens …

"America is the land which fought for freedom and then passed laws to get rid of it." – A. Neuman

"Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness." – Don Williams, Jr.

“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.” – 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (KJV)

“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won’t get it done.” – Pat Riley