Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“The worst thing in the world next to anarchy is government.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The worst thing in the world next to anarchy is government.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” – Congressman Larry McDonald
“Liberty, Sancho, my friend, is one of the most precious gifts that Heaven has bestowed on mankind.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote (Book 2, Part 14).
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.” – Sun Tsu, The Art of War translated ” by Samuel B. Griffith. (Foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart), Oxford University Press edition, 1982
“I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.” – Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (KJV)
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." – James Madison
“So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom..” – Psalm 90:12 (KJV)
"There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, Are our poor, modest humble and thankful? And do they use their best endeavors to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burden? On the contrary, I affirm that …
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." – Kenneth Boulding
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." – Thomas Jefferson
“What the mainstream media publishes is not news, its 24×7 psy-op infotainment.” – A ChrisMartenson.com subscriber’s post
“A Governments purpose is to serve those individuals from whom Government receives its authority; it has no other purpose.” – Jerry Ahern, Chapter 1 of “No Survivors”
Describing the current economic crisis and why no nation can print its way into prosperity: “If debt and money printing equaled prosperity then Zimbabwe would be the richest country.” – Marc Faber, as quoted by Andrew Mellon of Breitbart’s Big Government blog.
"Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." – 2 Corinthians 1:2-4
“We’re just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don’t really matter to it, hurtling us into confusion and a panic for answers that will allow us to resume our program again.” – Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life