“In an urban society everything connects each persons needs are fed by the skills of many others our lives are woven together in a fabric, but the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.” – Threads. A 1984 BBC television drama about the effects of a nuclear war on Sheffield, England.
“No one of us is ever safe. There is no security this side of the grave. A shipwreck or a hurricane can put man back to the brink of savagery, both in the means he uses to get his food and the lengths he will go to get it. The more ill-prepared people are to face trouble, the more likely they are to revert to savagery against each other.” – Novelist Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) from his novel “Bendigo Shafter”
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and …
“Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he’ll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.” – Reverend Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984) German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.
"A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble." – Charles H. Spurgeon
"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." – President Andrew Jackson
"The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low,
“People put up with the devils they know. They do not look for a lifeboat when they hear the ship’s hull scrape the iceberg. They assume that it will be business as usual. Then, one fine day, it isn’t.” – Dr. Gary North
“The worst day in a man’s life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.” – Thomas Jefferson
“And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his …
"I am endeavoring to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bear skins." – Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, in Star Trek, "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Screenplay by Harlan Ellison.)
"Never go anywhere without a Plan B." – Michael Ironside as Ham Tyler in the original television series "V"
“Don’t look like a Snicker’s bar if you don’t want to get eaten.” – Clint Smith, founder of the Thunder Ranch shooting school
“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the People.’ ‘We the People’ tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the People’ are the driver; the government is the car, and we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the People’ tell the government what it is allowed to do. ‘We …
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” – Cormac McCarthy, “No Country for Old Men”