Category: Quote of the Day

“Law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” – Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewig

“One meets one’s destiny often in the road one takes to avoid it.” – French Proverb

“I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.” – Clint Eastwood

“Yesterday, December Seventh, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleagues delivered to the Secretary of State a formal reply to a …

“Many a false step is made standing still.” – Pattie Labelle

“Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound …

“Is the credit crisis contained? Yes. The credit crisis is contained…to Planet Earth.” – Market Analyst Jim Grant, in a presentation at the 2007 New Orleans Investment Conference (as quoted at The Daily Reckoning)

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." – Voltaire (1764)

"Behold, the eye of the Lord [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine." – Psalm 33:18-19 (KJV)

“In six days–less than a week–the world turned upside down. San Francisco became a war zone. Do you know what people do when you tell them they no longer have rights? That an individual is powerless? They fight. It was ludicrous to think mankind would just roll on its back and comply. I saw my neighbors–people I’ve known for years–become bloodthirsty savages. Infected, uninfected, it didn’t matter. We were all driven mad. The survival instinct went ballistic. Food, guns, medicine, blood–it all became priceless. Worth killing for. Those who had became the targets of the had nots. A city of …

"Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind." – John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, 1687

"Congress does two things very well: one is nothing and two is overreact." – Rep. Tom Price, R.-Georgia

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." – Thomas Jefferson