Category: Quote of the Day

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero." – Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)

"All who profess Christianity believe in a Savior, and that by and though Him we must be saved." – Andrew Jackson

“Whole nations depends on technology. Stop the wheels for two days and you’d have riots. No place is more than two meals from a revolution. Think of Los Angeles or New York with no electricity. Or a longer view, fertilizer plants stop. Or a longer view yet, no new technology for ten years. What happens to our standard of living?… Yet the damned fools won’t pay ten minutes’ attention a day to science and technology. How many people know what they’re doing? Where do these carpets come from? The clothes you’re wearing? What do carburetors do? Where do sesame seeds …

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." – Mark Twain

“Procrastination is attitude’s national assassin. There is nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.” – William James

“All over the world, interest rates have been cut and budgets padded. France’s deficit is running at 8% of GDP. England is running a deficit of more than 12% of GDP. And the U.S. is mobilizing as if it had been attacked by Martians. On the credit side, the feds have cut rates more than ever before, for a monetary boost equivalent to 18% of GDP, according to Grant. As to spending, $13 trillion has been pledged…an amount equivalent to a full year’s annual output of the United States of America. This response is three times more (adjusted to today’s …

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." – John Adams

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." – Epictetus (c.55-c.135)

"Governments and central banks are going to lose the war on gold because they refuse to fight gold by the one technique that can give them victory: stop printing money." – Dr. Gary North.

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will." – John D. MacDonald

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." – G.K. Chesterton

"Why should taxpayers who live in apartments, perhaps because they did not feel that they could afford to buy a house, be forced to subsidize other people who could not afford to buy a house, but who went ahead and bought one anyway?" – Thomas Sowell

"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When… …the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." – Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The ‘learned’ usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

"Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home." – G.K. Chesterton.