Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“Where is He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.” – Matthew 2:2 (KJV)
“Where is He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.” – Matthew 2:2 (KJV)
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince Of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with Judgment and with Justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” – Isaiah 9:6-7 (KJV)
“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.” – Isaiah 4-31 (KJV)
“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my defense; I shall not be moved.” – Psalm 62:5-6 (KJV)
“We’ll never know the worth of water till the well goes dry.” – Scottish Proverb
"We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people." – Daniel Webster, in an address to the U.S. Senate, 1833
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”- Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)
"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers." – Edgar R. Fiedler
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society." – Benjamin Franklin
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." – Alexander Hamilton
“The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact, or, in other words, the subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.” – The Federalist, #84 (Attributed to Alexander Hamilton)
“If the Democrats believe Clinton’s tax increases led to a boom economy and Bush’s tax cuts destroyed the economy, why do they want to extend the Bush tax rates?” – Rush Limbaugh
“Most of the central banks have a lot of Ph.D.s, with no real world experience. They have read books, but have not been in the trench to “feel” what it is truly like. This is why government employees rarely have anything worthwhile that will ever contribute to society. There is not a single economic statistic that is even valid, no less any plausible guide as to what is going on. There are manipulated so much to try and influence the ‘public confidence’ that it becomes a joke.” – Imprisoned economist Martin A. Armstrong
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy … censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” – Robert A. Heinlein