Category: Quote of the Day

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" – Samuel Adams

“The view which defines liberty as the mere ‘absence of restraint’ may be well-meaning, but this is the best one can say about it. It is a definition which permits, and even encourages, the substance of liberty to leak away. It undermines the sanctity of the person and property, it ignores the moral order, and it undermines the system of contracts. The truly free man is not a captive of his impulses; he controls his own actions so as not to impair the equal rights of others to their persons and their property; he is constrained by moral considerations; and …

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." – Arthur Ashe, American Tennis Player

"Yet the criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it." – Ludwig von Mises

“To be a Christian, in an environment like this, makes it even that much more difficult. Because the thinner I get, the hungrier I am, the more unsafe I feel, the weaker I become spiritually. And it’s very difficult to be the Good Samaritan and love they neighbor when you’re starving.” – Jim Armistead, in The Colony, Season 2. (A television show on The Discovery Channel. See the online clip titled “Survivor Reflections”.)

“I invest in anything that Bernanke can’t destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.” – David Stockman October, 2010. (Stockman was Budget Director in the Reagan Administration)

"The only thing that goes with the flow is dead fish." – Tracy Roberts

“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.” – American college football coach Nick Saban

“Plan A is to live a long, prosperous life while enjoying my Freedom, and Liberty. My Guns are Plan B.” – From a .sig block at The Highroad Forums.

“Am fear nach gheidh na h-airm ‘nam na sith, Cha bhi iad aige ‘n am a chogaidh.” – Gaelic Proverb (“Who keeps not his arms in times of peace, Will have no arms in times of war.”)

“The only things my chickens won’t eat are celery and onion skins, because even a chicken knows that eating celery is like Keynesian stimulus, a waste of time and energy, costing more to consume than the act will generate.” – Thomas Luongo, in the essay How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Respect the Chicken

“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.” – Habakkuk 3:17-19 (KJV)

"The more you know, the less you need." – Australian Aboriginal Saying

"A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, and then keeps the watch." – Robert Townsend (1970)

“Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because most people don’t want to admit they don’t have the courage to do anything about it. Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.” – Michael Rivero