“The people don’t like to be conquered, sir, and so they will not be. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. You will find that is so, sir.” – John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" – Jay Leno
"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." – Edward Langley, American Artist (1925-1995)
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is ‘not done’… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.” – George Orwell
“Americans are in the process of ruining themselves. They are transforming assets into liabilities, trading the real wealth that was built up over generations for the quick fix of debt. The ‘equity’ they own in their homes has fallen to its lowest level since the government began tracking it in 1965. The asset – the home – has been replaced by mortgage debt.” – Bill Bonner (Editor of The Daily Reckoning)
"And the word of the Lord came unto him [Elijah], saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan." – I Kings 17: 2–3
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." – Dietriech Bonhoeffer
“It’s not the years honey, it’s the mileage.” – Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan.)
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." – Henry Ford
"Foreign aid: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." – Douglas Casey
“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.” – Proverbs 20:4 (KJV)
“There is a difference between an ‘optimist’ and a fool. An optimist is somebody who looks at bleak facts and decides to make the best of the situation that they can. A fool is somebody who looks at bleak facts and decides to ignore them because they are too upsetting.” – Matt Savinar, Editor of Life After The Oil Crash
“So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.” – Ezekiel 3:14 (KJV)
"Woe to those that call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" – Isaiah 5:20
“Nobody has ever argued that the government deficit-spending and all the rest of the heroic, last-ditch, pull-out-all-the-stops monetary excesses would not make statistics of economic activity blip upward. The argument is whether or not it will eventually destroy the economy. I say it does. The rise in the price of gold says it does. The decline in the dollar says it does. All of recorded economic history says it does.” – Richard Daughty (aka The Mogambo Guru)