Category: Quote of the Day

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and …

“Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he’ll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.” – Reverend Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984) German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.

"A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble." – Charles H. Spurgeon

"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." – President Andrew Jackson

"The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low,

“People put up with the devils they know. They do not look for a lifeboat when they hear the ship’s hull scrape the iceberg. They assume that it will be business as usual. Then, one fine day, it isn’t.” – Dr. Gary North

“The worst day in a man’s life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.” – Thomas Jefferson

“And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his …

"I am endeavoring to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bear skins." – Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, in Star Trek, "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Screenplay by Harlan Ellison.)

"Never go anywhere without a Plan B." – Michael Ironside as Ham Tyler in the original television series "V"

“Don’t look like a Snicker’s bar if you don’t want to get eaten.” – Clint Smith, founder of the Thunder Ranch shooting school

“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the People.’ ‘We the People’ tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the People’ are the driver; the government is the car, and we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the People’ tell the government what it is allowed to do. ‘We …

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” – Cormac McCarthy, “No Country for Old Men”

“Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.” – Marko the Munchkin Wrangler, in his blog essay “Why the Gun is Civilization.”

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of …