“Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is the least to be cheap and is never free of cost.” – Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
“Never stand when you can kneel, never kneel when you can sit, and never sit when you can get down prone. Take your time, and make each shot count, son.” – Donald Robert Rawles, (JWR’s father), instruction on shooting positions, circa 1975
"You’ve got a fast car, Is it fast enough so we can fly away? We gotta make a decision, Leave tonight, Or live and die this way." – Tracy Chapman, from her song "Fast Car", 1991
“You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.” – Clint Smith, founder of Thunder Ranch
"Good luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Bad luck is when lack of preparation meets adversity." – Coach Darrel Royal
" …vaults of the central banks and return to the pockets and purses of private individuals, for gold is the only really sound money with intrinsic value. The desire to return to gold is understandable, and we hope to see it realized some day, although the argument in favor of the gold standard is not always stated in a valid way. The distinctive function of gold money does not consist in its intrinsic value or in the constancy of that value, which fluctuates even in the absence of government intervention. The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in …
“That mythical island, whose inhabitants earned a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.” – Lewis Carroll
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." – Bertrand Russell
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a person but the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances – to choose one’s own way. ” – Victor Frankl
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" – Samuel Adams
“Of all the wonderful things government says, that’s always been just about my favorite [government spending creates jobs]. As opposed to if you get to keep the money. Because what you’ll do is go out and bury it in your yard, anything to prevent that money from creating jobs. They never stop saying it. They say it with a straight face and we in the press will write that down. We will say, ‘This is expected to create x number of jobs.’ On the other hand, we never say that the money we removed from another part of the economy …
“My soul finds rest in God alone; for my salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.” – Psalm 62:1-2
“Welcome to a depression. Not such a bad thing, really. Just a period of adjustment…a time for fixing, re-organizing, downsizing, and mending. There’s a time to every purpose under heaven. This is the time to take stock and shape up. But wait again. It doesn’t feel like a depression. Where are the soup lines? Where are the Okies packing up and moving to California? Where are Ziegfield Girls, the Civilian Conservation Corps and Eleanor Roosevelt? How come this depression’s not in black and white? Well…because this is a 21st century depression. This depression is in living color…and it comes to …
"History is not merely what happened; it is what happened in the context of what might have happened. Therefore it must incorporate, as a necessary element, the alternatives, the might-have-beens." – Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regis Professor of Modern History; Oxford University, valedictory address 20 May 1980; quoted in History Today, Vol. 2, Issue 7, July 1982, p. 88
“Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.” – Advice of Sherlock Holmes to his close friend Dr. Watson, circa 1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Hound of the Baskervilles