“Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [the Pearl Harbor US Navy Base] officers’ mess are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.” – William Manchester
“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers
Mexican Boy (pointing): Mira, mira! Viene la tormenta! Sarah Connor: What did he just say? Mexican Gas Station Attendant: He said there’s a storm coming. Sarah Connor: I know. – Closing scene of Terminator (1984) Screenplay by James Cameron, Randall Frakes, Gale Anne Hurd, and William Wisher Jr.
"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." – Sir Isaac Newton, shortly after losing all of his savings in the South Seas Bubble investing swindle
"So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank than any other nation, more cotton, more everything in the world – there’s not a product that you can name that we haven’t got more of than any other country had on the face of the earth – and yet we’ve got people starving. We’ll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poorhouse in an automobile." – Will Rogers, in a live radio broadcast, October 18, 1931
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people." – Congressman Ron Paul, 1987
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." – John Philpot Curran, 1790
“The simple truth is that cheap and easy oil is gone. This is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of.” – T. Boone Pickens
"By using gravity as your tow line, you can sidle up to an asteroid. Maintain it for a year and that should give it enough nudge to miss the earth 20 years later." – Stanley Love
“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, in Mapp v. Ohio, 1961
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." – Hannah Arendt
“Our currency’s fiat status is old news; it’s been completely unfettered from the discipline of the gold standard for nearly forty years. A gold standard is one of the things that keep governments in check. Without it, governments tend to do really evil and stupid things…like setting up a central bank that creates “money” at will, simultaneously destroying the savings of the citizenry and subsidizing unproductive businesses, practices and people. Okay, now this really is starting to sound familiar The bad news: Our currency is probably going to collapse completely and we are probably seeing the very first days of …
“People who object to [privately-owned] weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.” – L. Neil Smith
"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." – 1 Thessalonians 4:12
