Category: Quote of the Day

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.” – Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley, in Dr. Strangelove. (Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George)

“Every person has a natural, fundamental and inalienable human, individual, civil and Constitutional right to obtain and carry their weapon of choice without asking anyone’s permission.” – L. Neil Smith, addressing the Libertarian 2nd Amendment Caucus

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere." – Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787

"We must remember that one man is much the same as another and that he is best who is trained in the most severe school." – Thucydides

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter". – Benjamin Disraeli

”Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution; for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." – Daniel Webster

"If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed." – Exodus 22:2

"Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power" – David Ricardo, "The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo", 1817

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." – American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

"And this is the law of the jungle; As old and true as the sky. And the wolf that shall keep it will prosper; But he wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, The law runneth forward and back. For the strength of the pack is the wolf, And the strength of the wolf is the pack." – Rudyard Kipling, The Law of the Jungle (from The Jungle Book)

"An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants." – Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince" (1532)

“Like I told my last wife, I says, “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.” – Kurt Russell as Jack Burton, in John Carpenter’s 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China. (Screenplay by Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein. Adapted by W.D. Richter.)

“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." – Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

“Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” – Psalm 81:7-10 (KJV)

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises, it costs nothing." – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)