“Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.” – Psalm 61:1-4 (KJV)
“Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is] in the heaven and in the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour [come] of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand [is] power and might; and in thine hand [it is] to make great, and …
"While we benefit in some ways from modern technology, I do wonder what state our world would be in if we suddenly lost the electrical power necessary to keep our communications functioning. Would the younger generations know how to grow crops to feed a family? Would they know how to drop anchor and wait for the catch? Would they know how to survive by the sweat of their brow? New is good. Old is necessary." – Reverend Billy Graham
"Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians." – The late Derry Brownfield
"An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed." – Norton v. Shelby County, US Supreme Court Decision 118 US 425, 442 (in 1886)
“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” – A.E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.” – Hebrews 11:7 (KJV)
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” – The Late Bernard Meltzer (1914-2007), University of Chicago Law Professor
“The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought, and that’s sort of exactly the Mexican story. It took forever and then it took a night.” – Economist Rudiger Dornbusch (as quoted in John Mauldin’s newsletter, Thoughts from the Front Line)
“The adjective ‘public’ modifies the noun ‘school’ the same way it does ‘transportation’ or ‘restroom’: serving as a warning that it is filthy and full of junkies and criminals.” – Tamara, the editor of the View From The Porch blog
“You have no idea what anything is worth until you need it and can’t get it.” – An anonymous comment posted at ZeroHedge.
“If you can’t do it with a .30-06, it probably can’t be done.” – The Late Col. Jeff Cooper
“They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.” – Song of Solomon 3:8 (KJV)
“The U.S. economic and systemic-solvency crises of the last five years continue to deteriorate. Yet they remain just the precursors to the coming Great Collapse: a hyperinflationary great depression. The unfolding circumstance will encompass a complete loss in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar; a collapse in the normal stream of U.S. commercial and economic activity; a collapse in the U.S. financial system, as we know it; and a likely realignment of the U.S. political environment.” – John Williams of Shadowstats