Category: Quote of the Day

"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

"Lo que separa la civilización de la anarquía son solo siete comidas." ("Civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart.") – Spanish proverb

"To sin by silence, when we should protest makes cowards out of men." – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“When people ask me what the biggest risks to New York are in a hurricane, I say ‘New Yorkers.’” – Nicholas K. Coch, professor of Coastal Geology at Queens College

"Bipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicians from both major parties." – Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit

“Nonsense, man! They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!” – The ironic last words of U.S. General John B. Sedgwick, as he sized up the Battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

"We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force." – Supreme Court Just Louis D. Brandeis, as quoted by Alfred Lief, The Brandeis Guide to the Modern World (1941), p. 212, published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." – Luke 21:36

"If man is not governed by God, he will be ruled by tyrants." – William Penn, founder and first governor of Pennsylvania

“Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.” – Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian (The Matrix Trilogy). Screenplay by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski

"Why is it so difficult to explain survival to family and friends? Well, for starters you first have to explain that the country they think they live in simply no longer exists." – SurvivalBlog Reader Roger D.

“Everyone is waiting for the Fed’s November surprise. They are waiting for an announcement of a major new plan by the Fed to print up hundreds of billions of dollars. This is ‘quantitative easing,’ also known as ‘Bernanke as a drunken sailor on a spree.’ So deeply Keynesian are the nation’s financial analysts that they think this will be a great benefit to the economy.” – Dr. Gary North, The Daily Reckoning e-newsletter

“A return to the principles of a gold standard that constrain government spending and retain the value of money will in turn enable the return to the more enduring values of humanity. In the meantime, the writing is on the wall for all to see. Be careful because it could fall at any time.” – Peter Souleles, in Sydney Australia’s ABC Bullion Blog: Buy Gold Young Man

"There are certain principles that are inherent in man, that belong to man, and that were enunciated in an early day, before the United States government was formed, and they are principles that rightfully belong to all men everywhere. They are described in the Declaration of Independence as inalienable rights, one of which is that men have a right to live; another is that they have a right to pursue happiness; and another is that they have a right to be free and no man has authority to deprive them of those God-given rights, and none but tyrants would do …