Category: Quote of the Day

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle." – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait." – G. K. Chesterton

"There is no glory in practice, But without practice there is no glory." – Anonymous

“Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.” – Lou Holtz

"It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve — nor would it be appropriate — to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their financial decisions." – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking at the Jackson Hole Federal Reserve conference, August 31, 2007. (Just 25 days before doing exactly that–by lowering interest rates by 50 Basis Points, to the advantage of banking lenders and equities investors, and at the expense of the value of the US Dollar in foreign exchange, and to the detriment of all holders of US dollars.)

"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian" – Pat Paulsen (American comedian)

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." – President George Washington

“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” – William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) Prime Minister of Canada, 1935

“Do not ever make the mistake of thinking that the other guy is as bad a shot as your shooting buddies are.” – JC121, at TheHighRoad.org

"[T]he militia, sir, is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it." – Patrick Henry (from the debates over the adoption of the proposed new American Constitution of 1787)

"Let me now reassure you, your money is safe with us and if you want some, or all of it back, then you are perfectly entitled to it. Whilst you may have to wait a little longer than usual to receive it, you will get it." – Adam Applegarth, Chief Officer, Northern Rock Bank, (The fifth largest mortgage lender in England), September 14, 2007

“Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. – Hippolochus, to Glaucus, in Homer’s Iliad VI, (Fagle’s translation, p.202)

"If pointing an empty gun at your opponent makes him duck, you may live for an extra two seconds-and who knows? You may find another gun, the bad guy may give up, or the Ammo Fairy may drop you a magazine." – Clint Smith, director of Thunder Ranch

“The hope of every central bank is that the real problem can be kept from public view. The truth is that the public — even professionals on Wall Street — have no clue what the real problem is. They know it has something to do with derivatives, but none of them realize that it’s more than a $20 trillion mountain of unfunded, unregulated paper that has just been discovered to not have a market and, therefore, no real value . . . When the dollar realizes the seriousness of the situation — be that now or sometime soon — the …

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." – Thomas Sowell