"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become." – Brooke Foss Westcott
"Assessing, developing, attaining and sustaining needed emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities is a difficult task that requires sustained leadership… there is no silver bullet, no easy formula." – William Jenkins
“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them..” – Nehemiah 4:9 (KJV)
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist – it reduces him to his fighting weight." – Josh Billings
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." – Edwin H. Chapin
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." – Thomas Jefferson
"We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong." – President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
“Sure I am that this day – now we are the masters of our fate; that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable will-power, salvation will not be denied us.” – Winston Churchill, addressing a joint session of the US Congress, December 26, 1941
"Just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time…We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don’t understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur." – Jerry Bridges
"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