Category: Quote of the Day

"No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… The instinct of self-preservation demands it likewise: for how helpless is the state of the ill-trained youth in war or danger!" – Socrates

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other faculty than the ape like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.” – John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”

“In a country like America where riots occur during brownouts, and people stab each other for cutting ahead in service station lines during gasoline shortages, one has to wonder how our society would react to a total disruption of its artificial life-support system. In researching magazine articles I’ve interviewed urban disaster planning authorities who are more skeptical about saving their citizens from major civil disruption than Mel Tappan ever was.” – Massad Ayoob, in “The Truth About Self Protection“

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." – Edward Everett Hale (A descendant of Nathan Hale)

“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…” – Habakkuk 3:19 (KJV)

"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

"No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker." – Theodore Roosevelt

“Prepping, to me, is much like a seat belt. I wear a seat belt every time I get behind the wheel. I do not expect to need it. I pray to God that I’ll never need it. I’d be ignorant to ignore the possibility that it may save my very life.” – Pat Riot

“At the moment of every day I must decide what I am going to do the next moment; and no one can make this decision for me, or take my place in this.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset

“If there was a way out of this, someone would have thought of it long ago in the past 4000 years of one government after another spending itself into unpayable, bankrupting debt!” – Richard Daughty (aka “The Mogambo Guru”)

“It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that ‘it can’t happen here’; that one’s own little time and place is beyond cataclysms.” – John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” – John 1:5 (KJV)

“People are resilient. Correction, survivors are resilient” – Sam North, from his novel “Another Place to Die”, p. 157

“In the Middle Ages, the average human life expectancy did not reach into the teen years, not only because of the extremely high perinatal mortality that heavily skewed the data, but also because Europeans (and much of the world during this time) lived in an unhealthy milieu of filth, poor hygiene, and nearly non-existent sanitation. Superstition and ignorance, along with pestilential diseases and vermin infestation, were rampant. Epidemic and endemic diseases such as the bubonic plague, typhus, variola (smallpox), and the White Death of tuberculosis (consumption) took a heavy toll on the population, both young and old.” – Miguel A. …

“If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.” – Aaron Zelman, co-founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership