Category: Quote of the Day

"Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism." – Military Historian B. H. Liddell Hart

"Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left." – Malay proverb

“Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" – both mistakes and lies).” – Thomas Sowell

“If socialism, a scheme of mediocrities rather than men of proven ability, is financially unworkable, what happens when the United States is at last socialized by confiscatory income taxes and strangulation of industry in the British manner? Without a capitalist nation to produce wealth, civilization may expect chaos.” – Economist Dr. Karl Fuerbringer (Austrian school)

"Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her. She hears no voice that always champions her; she knows no pen that always writes in her defense; she sees no hand that is always lifted to avenge her wrongs or vindicate her rights. Many claim to speak in her name, but few really understand her. Still fewer have the courage and the opportunity to consistently fight for her. Her battle, then, is her own to wage and win. She accepts it fearlessly, and with a determined spirit." – Benjamin …

"There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." – Albert Einstein

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy." – George Washington

“[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in [Waco,] Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. H*ll, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn’t Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen? – P.J. O’Rourke

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’; I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney J. Harris

"I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." – Psalm 34:4

"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