Category: Quote of the Day

“If there was a way out of this, someone would have thought of it long ago in the past 4000 years of one government after another spending itself into unpayable, bankrupting debt!” – Richard Daughty (aka “The Mogambo Guru”)

“It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that ‘it can’t happen here’; that one’s own little time and place is beyond cataclysms.” – John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” – John 1:5 (KJV)

“People are resilient. Correction, survivors are resilient” – Sam North, from his novel “Another Place to Die”, p. 157

“In the Middle Ages, the average human life expectancy did not reach into the teen years, not only because of the extremely high perinatal mortality that heavily skewed the data, but also because Europeans (and much of the world during this time) lived in an unhealthy milieu of filth, poor hygiene, and nearly non-existent sanitation. Superstition and ignorance, along with pestilential diseases and vermin infestation, were rampant. Epidemic and endemic diseases such as the bubonic plague, typhus, variola (smallpox), and the White Death of tuberculosis (consumption) took a heavy toll on the population, both young and old.” – Miguel A. …

“If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.” – Aaron Zelman, co-founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

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"There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. The contingency we have not considered seriously looks strange; what looks strange is thought improbable; what is improbable need not be considered seriously." – Thomas Schelling

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen God." – 3 John 11

“I am fortunate for a wonderful graduate education in the PhD program at Stanford, but I learned more about the way the world works in two months of farming (which saved a wretch like me) than in four years of concentrated study.” – Victor Davis Hanson

"Take hope from the heart of a man and you make him a beast of prey." – Marie Louise de la Ramée

“Survival begins not with guns, gold, and a garden. It starts with self-reliance, strong family and communal bonds, a plan of subterfuge, and clandestine acts centered in the refusal to be subdued. You can’t have it all so you had better spend the scarce time, energy and resources you have left to prepare.” – Tim Case

“For the record, every program the government put in place in 2009 has failed. Yet, we keep doing the same thing, at a cost of literally trillions of dollars. This is madness to the nth power.” – Editor of The Investor’s Business Daily, December, 2009

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." – Mark Twain