Category: Quote of the Day

"A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality." – Winston Churchill

"…if the debt should once more be swelled to a formidable size… we shall be committed to the English career of debt, corruption and rottenness, closing with revolution." – Thomas Jefferson

“If you’re not shootin’, you should be loadin’. If you’re not loadin’, you should be movin’, if you’re not movin’, someone’s gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.” – Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious.But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. …

“They didn’t have rounds for the Buhnder, but we’re ammoed up pretty good. Got a discount too, on account of my intimidating manner.” – Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 12, “The Message”. Screenplay by Joss Whedon and Tim Minear

“You gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?” – Clint Eastwood in the title role of The Outlaw Josey Wales, (1976). Screenplay by Phillip Kaufman and Sonia Chernus, based on the novel Gone to Texas by Asa Earl Carter, under the pen name Forrest Carter. (He also authored The Education of Little Tree.)

“It is written, ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, Every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.” – Romans 14:11

“Now if just a small portion of American bank depositors hear that the FDIC had to tap into the US Treasury for funds, and these depositors feel their banked money is at risk and want to withdraw some of it, the mother of all bank runs could ensue. This could create the day of reckoning that many have predicted. A short banking holiday would have to be declared and who knows what happens from there – troops in the streets, issuance of new currency, martial law? Don’t think those in the Federal government haven’t made plans for such an occurrence.” …

“…the Last Contango in Washington will be different from all previous crises. It will be elemental, devastating, and apocalyptic. It will destroy virtually all paper wealth and render virtually all physical capital idle. It will involve hordes of unemployed people roaming the streets, caring for no law and order, pillaging homes and institutions. It will destroy our freedoms. It may destroy our civilization unless we take protective action.” – Antal Fekete

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." – General George S. Patton

“They made up their minds And they started packing They left before the sun came up that day An exit to eternal summer slacking But where were they going Without ever knowing the way? They drank up the wine And they got to talking They now had more important things to say And when the car broke down They started walking Where were they going without ever knowing the way?” The Way, by Fastball, (1991)

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." – James Madison

"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies." – Stephen Leacock

“The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto …

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Parkinson’s Law, coined by C. Northcote Parkinson, circa 1957