Category: Quote of the Day

"If it be not to come, it will be now, If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2

“Empires and currencies rise and fall, but gold stands strong, monolithic and proud, casting an enormous shadow over all monetary history.” – Adam Hamilton, April 2, 2002

"Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think, and act for myself–and then I will obey every law or submit to the penalty." – Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Tribe

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.” – Sachel Paige

“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.” – Frederic Bastiat

“The only thing that can stop a bad man with a gun, is a good man with a gun” – Major Lars Laine, a fictional character in the forthcoming sequel to “Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse”, scheduled for release in 2011. The working title is: Veterans: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse. Its storyline will be contemporaneous with that of JWR’s first novel, and will have a few cross-over characters. This novel will be set primarily in the southwestern United States.

"Search me, Oh God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there be and wicked way in me, and lead me to way everlasting." – Psalm 26:2

"The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split." – W. C. Fields

"You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty: finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor." – William Galston

"Inflation is the senility of democracies." – Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." – Thomas Jefferson

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." – Edmund Burke

"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls down and has no one to help him up!" – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

"It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country … in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives — the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to …