Category: Quote of the Day

"The only thing that goes with the flow is dead fish." – Tracy Roberts

“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.” – American college football coach Nick Saban

“Plan A is to live a long, prosperous life while enjoying my Freedom, and Liberty. My Guns are Plan B.” – From a .sig block at The Highroad Forums.

“Am fear nach gheidh na h-airm ‘nam na sith, Cha bhi iad aige ‘n am a chogaidh.” – Gaelic Proverb (“Who keeps not his arms in times of peace, Will have no arms in times of war.”)

“The only things my chickens won’t eat are celery and onion skins, because even a chicken knows that eating celery is like Keynesian stimulus, a waste of time and energy, costing more to consume than the act will generate.” – Thomas Luongo, in the essay How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Respect the Chicken

“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.” – Habakkuk 3:17-19 (KJV)

"The more you know, the less you need." – Australian Aboriginal Saying

"A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, and then keeps the watch." – Robert Townsend (1970)

“Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because most people don’t want to admit they don’t have the courage to do anything about it. Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.” – Michael Rivero

“War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force – to dominate our being.” – Eric L. Haney, Command Sergeant Major US Army, from his book “Inside Delta Force“

“We have no patrol units. There is no one on the streets. We respond to only crimes in progress. We don’t respond to property crimes.” – Ashtabula County, Ohio Deputy Sheriff Ron Fenton, as quoted by Maclean’s, September 22, 2010

"When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable." – Emile Durkheim

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to …

"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." – Terry Pratchett

“It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any outcropping of what is now called ‘a conspiracy theory of history.’ For a search for ‘conspiracies,’ as misguided as the results often are, means a search for motives, and an attribution of individual responsibility for the historical misdeeds of ruling elites. If, however, any tyranny or venality, or aggressive war imposed by the State was brought about not by particular State rulers but by mysterious and arcane ‘social forces,’ or by the imperfect state of the world — or if, in some way, everyone …