"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty." – President John Adams, June 21, 1776
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." – Benjamin Franklin
“Maybe the Fed can fool some of the people some of the time, but it can’t fool all of the people all of the time. In the process, policy makers may end up fooling themselves that they can create expectations of a little more inflation without delivering a lot of the real thing.” – Caroline Baum
“There are two ways to sleep well at night… be ignorant or be prepared.” – Simon Black, Editor of the Sovereign Man blog.
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." – C.S. Lewis
"Lo que separa la civilización de la anarquía son solo siete comidas." ("Civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart.") – Spanish proverb
"To sin by silence, when we should protest makes cowards out of men." – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“When people ask me what the biggest risks to New York are in a hurricane, I say ‘New Yorkers.’” – Nicholas K. Coch, professor of Coastal Geology at Queens College
"Bipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicians from both major parties." – Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit
“Nonsense, man! They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!” – The ironic last words of U.S. General John B. Sedgwick, as he sized up the Battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.
"We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force." – Supreme Court Just Louis D. Brandeis, as quoted by Alfred Lief, The Brandeis Guide to the Modern World (1941), p. 212, published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." – Luke 21:36
“It is not what a man gets but what a man is that he should think of. He should think first of his character and then of his condition for if he have the former he need not worry about the latter. Character will draw condition after it. Circumstances obey principles.” – Henry Ward Beecher, American Abolitionist (and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe)
"If man is not governed by God, he will be ruled by tyrants." – William Penn, founder and first governor of Pennsylvania
“Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.” – Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian (The Matrix Trilogy). Screenplay by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
