Category: Quote of the Day

"In political life today, you are considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others." – John Stossel

“To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.” Benjamin Franklin

“You can call a survivalist irrational. You can call a survivalist reactionary. You can even call a survivalist stupid. But there’s one thing you can’t call a survivalist: unprepared.” – Thomas Greene

"Oppression can only survive through silence." – Carmen de Monteflores

“There comes a time in every man’s life when he is called upon to do something very special; something for which he and only he has the capabilities, has the skills and has the necessary training. What a pity if the moment finds the man unprepared.” – Winston Churchill

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” – Thomas Sowell

"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." – Grover Cleveland

“Remember the ancient saying: ‘[Si] vis pacem – para bellum’ – if you want peace – be ready for the war. Within the whole history of our civilization, no one disproved it. So let the weapons be not the means of terror, but the way to defend peace, democracy and law. I wish you all health, success and fruitful work. With best wishes,” – Mikhail Kalashnikov

“Civilised man has marched across the face of the earth and left a desert in his footprints.” – from Topsoil and Civilization by Vernon Gill Carter and Tom Dales (available for free download)

"Political Correctness is just Tyranny with manners." – The late Charlton Heston, in speech at Yale University

“While driving north through Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Interstate 69, we passed a new ‘McMansion’ subdivision. It was right off the frontage road, screened from the freeway by a few scraggly saplings, and named on a large landscaped sign, “Hidden Glen.” My wife and I looked at each other and simultaneously asked, “Hidden from what?’” – Michael Z. Williamson

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." – Gandalf, in The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

"History is a vast early warning system." – Norman Cousins

"If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of …