Category: Quote of the Day

"Freedoms assumed become freedoms forgotten, freedoms forgotten will become freedoms lost." – Dr. Ergun Caner, President of Liberty Theological Seminary

“Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow.” – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1757

"Human freedom is not a gift of man. It is an achievement by man; and as it was gained by vigilance and struggle so it may be lost in indifference and supineness." – Harry F. Byrd

“Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington, Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior #56

"Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival." – W. Edwards Deming

“Every disaster response is local. It’s up to us to take care of our people.” – Mike Manning, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

“Why did she have to go So young I just don’t know why Things happen half the time Without reason without rhyme Lovely, sweet young woman Daughter, wife and mother Makes no sense to me I just have to believe She flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And she walks with Jesus and her loved ones waiting And I know she’s smiling saying Don’t worry ’bout me.” – Alan Jackson, from Sissy’s Song

“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.” – from the novel Hope by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith

"But what do you mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and heart of the people." – John Adams

“It will not be quick and it will not be easy. Our adversaries are not one or two terrorist leaders, or even a single terrorist organization or network. It’s a broad network of individuals and organizations that are determined to terrorize and, in so doing, to deny us the very essence of what we are: free people. They don’t live in Antarctica. They work, they train and they plan in countries. They’re benefiting from the support of governments. They’re benefiting from the support of non-governmental organizations that are either actively supporting them with money, intelligence and weapons or allowing them …

“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he doesn’t care …

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." – John Maynard Keynes

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." – Patrick Henry

“When in doubt, overbuild.” – Eric Flint, 1635: The Cannon Law

"Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday." – Psalm 37:3-6