Category: Quote of the Week

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” – Robert Orben

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." – Winston Churchill

“Freedom is not a place to visit, or a thing to be achieved. Freedom is a commitment, a way of life that will endure only as long as men love it for themselves and their children, more than their weariness, or their fear, or vain comforts.” – Michael Casey, Phil’s Stock World March 27, 2010

"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.