Category: Quote of the Day

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

"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order." – Ed Howdershelt

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” – Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)

“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” – Thomas Jefferson . Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.

“Courage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven’t courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

“There is nothing wise nor noble for a person to act merely in their own self-interest. Such action is in fact rudimentary in nature and referred to as a survival instinct. Even microbes move toward food and favorable conditions of light and heat. They do this most likely without wisdom, or knowledge and understanding of conditions of the past. Noble acts in nature are largely seen in acts of parenting, which some see as purely instinctual as well, and thus not noble. Mankind is of course the one species which has the knowledge and understanding of the threats which it …

"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." – Henry Ford

"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses" – Tennessee Williams (1914-1983)

“We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often — much, much more often — it will save your life.” – Richard Marcinko, former US Navy SEAL Team Commander

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." – George Bernard Shaw

"When men cease to believe in God, they do not believe in nothing; they believe in anything!" – G.K. Chesterton

“To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)