Category: Quote of the Day

"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you." – William Hazlitt

"If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else." – Dave Ramsey

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog." – Jack London

"It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. All laws which are repugnant to the constitution are null and void." – Chief Justice John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1803

“Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.” – Deuteronomy 7:12-13 (KJV)

"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are." – Howard Hughes

“Little accustomed as we are to stone buildings, it may be thought by many to erect such an one (sic) would be a great undertaking, yet it may be done without either great expense, nor much difficulty. Hammered or chiseled stone is adapted to public buildings, or the houses of the wealthy, and is expensive; but comfortable, decent houses may be built with common stone, such as we would use for good field walls. Such stones laid in strong mortar, will make an excellent building,either by facing the wall with stones, if fit for the purpose, or by rough casting …

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." – Alexis de Tocqueville

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad." – James Madison

"Indifference to evil is evil." – Elie Weisel

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." – Thomas Jefferson

“Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month]. And the floors shall be full of wheat, …

“They say ‘America, love or leave it’, but I loved it, and it left me.” – Closing lyrics to “My Country, My A**”. (Foul language warning!)

Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce): “How does the, the thing work?” Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone): “Electricity: The high priest of false security.” – from the film: The Pearl of Death (1944). Screenplay by Bertram Millhauser.

“I got into the military because I like to shoot, not the other way around. They didn’t teach me how to shoot after I got into my uniform. I got into my uniform because I thought that I’d get a lot of ammunition.” – Colonel Jeff Cooper, speaking at a Doctors for Disaster Preparedness convention.