Category: Quote of the Day

"O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you." – 2 Chronicles 20:12 (ESV)

“The Great Depression was caused by Federal Reserve expansion of the money supply in the 1920s that led to an unsustainable credit-driven boom. When the Federal Reserve belatedly tightened in 1928, it was too late to avoid financial collapse. According to Murray Rothbard, in his book America’s Great Depression, the artificial interference in the economy was a disaster prior to the depression, and government efforts to prop up the economy after the crash of 1929 only made things worse. Government intervention delayed the market’s adjustment and made the road to complete recovery more difficult. The parallels with today are uncanny.” …

"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty." – President John Adams, June 21, 1776

"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." – Benjamin Franklin

“Maybe the Fed can fool some of the people some of the time, but it can’t fool all of the people all of the time. In the process, policy makers may end up fooling themselves that they can create expectations of a little more inflation without delivering a lot of the real thing.” – Caroline Baum

“There are two ways to sleep well at night… be ignorant or be prepared.” – Simon Black, Editor of the Sovereign Man blog.

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." – C.S. Lewis

"Lo que separa la civilización de la anarquía son solo siete comidas." ("Civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart.") – Spanish proverb

"To sin by silence, when we should protest makes cowards out of men." – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“When people ask me what the biggest risks to New York are in a hurricane, I say ‘New Yorkers.’” – Nicholas K. Coch, professor of Coastal Geology at Queens College

"Bipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicians from both major parties." – Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit

“Nonsense, man! They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!” – The ironic last words of U.S. General John B. Sedgwick, as he sized up the Battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

"We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force." – Supreme Court Just Louis D. Brandeis, as quoted by Alfred Lief, The Brandeis Guide to the Modern World (1941), p. 212, published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." – Luke 21:36