Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.” – Golda Meir
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.” – Golda Meir
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." – Honore de Balzac
“The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.” – Psalm 37:18-19 (KJV)
“The worst thing in the world next to anarchy is government.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” – Congressman Larry McDonald
“Liberty, Sancho, my friend, is one of the most precious gifts that Heaven has bestowed on mankind.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote (Book 2, Part 14).
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.” – Sun Tsu, The Art of War translated ” by Samuel B. Griffith. (Foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart), Oxford University Press edition, 1982
“I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.” – Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (KJV)
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." – James Madison
“So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom..” – Psalm 90:12 (KJV)
"There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, Are our poor, modest humble and thankful? And do they use their best endeavors to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burden? On the contrary, I affirm that …
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." – Kenneth Boulding
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." – Thomas Jefferson
“What the mainstream media publishes is not news, its 24×7 psy-op infotainment.” – A ChrisMartenson.com subscriber’s post
“A Governments purpose is to serve those individuals from whom Government receives its authority; it has no other purpose.” – Jerry Ahern, Chapter 1 of “No Survivors”