Category: Quote of the Day

"Foreign aid: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." – Douglas Casey

“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.” – Proverbs 20:4 (KJV)

“There is a difference between an ‘optimist’ and a fool. An optimist is somebody who looks at bleak facts and decides to make the best of the situation that they can. A fool is somebody who looks at bleak facts and decides to ignore them because they are too upsetting.” – Matt Savinar, Editor of Life After The Oil Crash

“So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.” – Ezekiel 3:14  (KJV)

"Woe to those that call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light,  and light for darkness;  who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" – Isaiah 5:20

“Nobody has ever argued that the government deficit-spending and all the rest of the heroic, last-ditch, pull-out-all-the-stops monetary excesses would not make statistics of economic activity blip upward. The argument is whether or not it will eventually destroy the economy. I say it does. The rise in the price of gold says it does. The decline in the dollar says it does. All of recorded economic history says it does.” – Richard Daughty (aka The Mogambo Guru)

“Saturday was indescribable. Nothing that I write can describe the utter state of lawlessness that prevailed. Every Egyptian prison was attacked by organized groups trying to free the prisoners inside. In the case of the prisons holding regular criminals this was done by their families and friends. In the case of the prisons with the political prisoners this was done by the Islamists. Bulldozers were used in those attacks and the weapons available from the looting of police stations were available. Nearly all the prisons fell. The prison forces simply could not deal with such an onslaught and no reinforcements …

“Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.” (“Don’t trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.”) – Laocoön, as quoted by Virgil, The Aeneid

“Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as `the president who lost Iran,’ which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who `lost’ Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America’s alliances in the Middle East crumbled.”- Aluf Benn in the daily Haaretz.

“If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light,” Ma considered. “We didn’t lack for light when I was a girl, before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of.”   “That’s so,” said Pa. “These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves – they’re good things to have, but trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.”  – Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Which describes the harsh winter of 1880-1881 in the Dakotas.)

"Woe to those that call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light,  and light for darkness;  who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" – Isaiah 5:20

"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security." – Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)

“The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.’ He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation….” – Francis Scott Key, February 22, 1812

“…either you oppose a lie, or you become a liar.” – Franklin Sanders

“If you can get closer, get closer.  If you can get steadier, get steadier.”- Marksmanship advice from Col. Jeff Cooper