Category: Quote of the Day

"I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. Of course, this makes me forever ineligible for public office." – H.L. Mencken

"I foresaw that, in time, it would please God to supply me with bread. And yet here I was perplexed again, for I neither knew how to grind or make meal of my corn, or indeed how to clean it and part it; nor, if made into meal, how to make bread of it; and if how to make it, yet I knew not how to bake it. These things being added to my desire of having a good quantity for store, and to secure a constant supply, I resolved not to taste any of this crop but to preserve …

“A wayfarer should not walk unarmed, But have his weapons to hand; He knows not when he may need a spear, Or what menace meet on the road.” – The Hávamál, Ancient Gnomic Norse Poem

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, …

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." – Alexander Graham Bell

“Greece will certainly default on its debts, and it is an open question whether Greece will experience some form of revolution or coup – I’d put the likelihood of that over the next five years as around one in four.” – Andrew Lilico, chief economist, Policy Exchange. (Quoted in June, 2010.)

“I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.  I thought of the many times that he and I had delivered fresh-picked farm produce to one of our elderly relatives. On such occasions he never failed to remind me that if we hadn’t worked so hard to grow it, we wouldn’t be able to give it to those who needed help. For the past few years, I’d been sneering at the simplemindedness of his philosophy of self-reliance, but now it was making sense to …

"The twenty-first century is already making the twentieth seem like the Age of Reason." – Joe Sobran

“Never, under any circumstances, ever become a refuge… Die if you must, but die on your home turf with your face to the wind, not in some stinking hellhole 2,000 kilometers away, among people you neither know nor care about.” – Ragnar Benson

“It could unfold very, very quickly. Because deflation is a swing of poverty feedback, it can take awhile to build up. If you try to explain to people what’s coming, because it doesn’t happen instantly, they tend to go back to sleep. The thing they need to understand, however, is that when it does hit a tipping point, a kind of critical mass, then it can unfold exceptionally quickly. Then it’s very much like having the rug pulled out from under your feet. So I tell people all the time, prepare now because it’s better to be two years too …

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 (KJV)

“…his father always said this was why he’d escaped from Iran–to be free. Free to think. Free to work. Free to play. Free to travel. Free to do whatever he pleased, without a tyrant controlling his every move. Amen, David thought.” – Joel C. Rosenberg, from the novel The Twelfth Imam (p. 66.)

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." – President James Garfield

"The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception." – Friedrich Hayek

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." – Napoleon Bonaparte