Jim’s Quote of the Day:
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." – Charlton Heston
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." – Charlton Heston
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." – Jack London
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." – The late Art Linkletter (1912-2010)
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." – Doug Larson
“Within, I would say, the next six years, interest payments on the [U.S.] Federal debt will exceed the defence budget. I think that one of the clear lessons of history is that is a major turning point for any [global] power. From Spain in the 17th Century , The Netherlands in the 18th Century, through the Turks in the 19th Century, and British in the 20th Century: When you are spending more on your debts than [on] your Army or Navy, it’s all over as a great power.” – Niall Ferguson, in a 2010 lecture on sovereign debt and crises …
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint. ” – Isaiah 40:30-31 (KJV)
“It is a blessing upon every one that feareth the Lord, and walks in His ways, that he shall eat the labor of his hands. And he that without his own labor either of body or mind eats the labor of other men’s hands only, and lives by their sweat, is but like unto lice, and other such vermin.” – John Robinson, “Observations of Knowledge and Virtue”
“You can’t keep printing money [that is] based on nothing.” – Gerald Celente
“The reason mankind has to hope that the world, its leaders, its newspapers, its so-called human rights organizations and the United Nations are right about Israel is quite simple: If Israel is the decent party in its war with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas — and nearly all the world’s countries, nearly all the world’s media and the United Nations are morally wrong — what hope is there for humanity? If the world’s moral compass is that broken, are we not sailing into a dark age?” – Dennis Prager, June, 2010
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” – C.S. Lewis
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.” – Golda Meir
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." – Honore de Balzac
“The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.” – Psalm 37:18-19 (KJV)
“The worst thing in the world next to anarchy is government.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” – Congressman Larry McDonald