"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." – Ludwig Von Mises
“The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” – George Orwell
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." – Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet go out to meet it, nonetheless." – Thucydides, 430 B.C.
"14 million people took a mortgage in the last three years. Seven million [of those] people took teaser rates or piggy-back rates. They will lose their homes, this is crazy!" – Jim Cramer
"But if a man lives may years and rejoices in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many . All that is coming is vanity." – Ecclesiastes 11-8 NKJV
“Half an hour. [Pack just] one bag, plus the guns. I’ll make pancakes.” In the next scene: “Every family has rules, and we had ours: Keep your head down. Keep yours eyes up. Resist the urge to be seen as important or special. Know your exits.” – Lena Headey as Sarah Connor, The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Pilot episode screenplay by Josh Friedman.)
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind." – Thomas Paine
"For man also does not know his time: Like a fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them. – Ecclesiastes 9:12 (NKJV)
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words ‘no’ and ‘not’ employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.” – Rev. Edmund A. Opitz (1914-2006)
“Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn’t authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don’t understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.” – Joseph Sobran
"Many of the best things in life are unappreciated until you begin to lose them. Consider good health, good brakes – and political liberty." – The Late Col. Jeff Cooper
"The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority… It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people." – Frank I. Cobb (1869-1923), LaFollette’s Magazine, January 1920
“Weapons compound man’s power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters – and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.” – The Late Col. Jeff Cooper
"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects." – President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)