Category: Quote of the Week

“An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.” – Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince” (1532)

“God, Who provides for all, will not desert us; especially being engaged, as we are, in His service” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote (Book 1, Part 11).

“While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen – because they’re part of the same story. It’s just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They’re at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch …

“I do not think there should be a limit on the rig’s liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. … The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.” Senator John Chafee, Senate Floor Debate, 135 Cong. Rec. S9689-S9716 (August 3, 1989)

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” – H. L. Mencken

“And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.” – Leviticus 26:10 (KJV)

“I believe that the physical gold rush we have seen in Europe is proof that the bailout was an epic failure. Of course propaganda will be used all over the place from the emotionally captured mainstream media to the stock market, which as I have said for over a year now is largely used as a political weapon because the uneducated masses actually believe the stock market going up means things are getting better. All we have to do is look at the stellar performance of the Zimbabwean stock market during the hyperinflation to know this is complete nonsense.” – …

“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