"As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Chicago politicians will always be Chicago politicians." – Karl Rove
"But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." – Romans 8:37
"Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope." – Romans 3:3-5
“Within a year of that attack [that drops the power grids], nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can’t support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity.” – Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy
“As the dollar breaks down, you’ll also likely see disruptions in supply chains, including shipments of food to grocery stores. People should consider maintaining stockpiles of basic goods needed for living, much as they would for a natural disaster. I sit on the Hayward fault in California. I have a supply of goods and basic necessities in case something terrible happens—natural or man-made—that will carry me for a couple of months. It may take that long for a barter system to evolve, which I think is what you’re going to end up with; at least until a new currency system …
"I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." – Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." – Congressman Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine (1839-1902), writing in 1886
“What’s the point of [gun control legislation], other than to inconvenience the honest citizen who follows the rules?… I can assure you that the guys I met in the nine prisons I served my sentence in did not get their guns at the gun store. ” – G. Gordon Liddy, as quoted in People magazine, January 10, 1994
"Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?" – Job 37:16
"What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing to fork out his copper and pocket a shilling." – Ebenezer Elliott
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frederic Bastiat, The Law.
“I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked ‘brightness’ but it don’t work, does it?” – Leo Anthony Gallagher
“As the state grows, one’s sense of self-ownership is destroyed, liberty is traded for ‘security’, the human spirit diminishes, and the citizenry increasingly thinks and behaves like dependent children”. – Eric Englund in Income Taxes, Obesity, and Other Maladies of Nanny Statism, 2005.
“The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?” – Matthew 16:1-3 (KJV)