Jim’s Quote of the Day:
"Steel is Strong because it Knows the Hammer and White Heat." – Johnny Cash, These Things Shall Pass
"Steel is Strong because it Knows the Hammer and White Heat." – Johnny Cash, These Things Shall Pass
“Sweet liberty, Sweet liberty is in our hands It’s part of the plan, Or is it a state of mind? Horses and men, Horses and men are on the field, They didn’t yield. Many have fallen here; Never forget Never forget what they have done, The time will come, When it will change again. Never forget!” – Chris De Burgh, from the lyrics to his song “Liberty”, from the album The Getaway
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, …
“For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.” – Deuteronomy 15:11 (KJV)
"With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people." – Friedrich A. Hayek, 1974 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
"Corruptisima republica plurimae leges." ("The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.") – Tacitus , The Annals of Imperial Rome
"A black market is a free market operating against the wishes of the state." – Harry Browne
"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our (the United States) overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." – Daniel Webster, June 1, …
Forget all this ‘sportsman’ nonsense! We own weapons to dissuade oligarchy from getting comfortable on our couches! Our concern is not the wildlife…” – Brandon Smith
“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