Category: Quote of the Week

"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

“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