Category: Quote of the Week

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

“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.” – George Mason (1725-1792)

“If hedge funds were a country, it would be the eighth-biggest on the planet. They can sink whole economies, and have the potential to crash the entire global financial system. Yet they are beyond regulation. We should be very afraid.” – Janet Bush, writing in New Statesman, July 31, 2006

"No one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result." – Ludwig von Mises

“I, as President do declare that the national emergency still exists; that the continued private hoarding of gold and silver by subjects of the United States poses a grave threat to peace, equal justice, and well-being of the United States; and that appropriate measures must be taken immediately to protect the interest of our people. Therefore, pursuant to the above authority, I hereby proclaim that such gold and silver holdings are prohibited, and that all such coin, bullion or other possessions of gold and silver be tendered within fourteen days to agents of the Government of the United States for …

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives." – Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) Ladies Home Journal, May 1958

"The gap between future US receipts and future US government obligations now totals $65.9 trillion, a sum that is impossible for the US to reconcile, which means the US is now technically bankrupt." – St. Louis Federal Reserve Review, July/August issue 2006

“The gun control debate generally ignores the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the Second amendment. The Second amendment is not about hunting deer or keeping a pistol in your nightstand. It is not about protecting oneself against common criminals. It is about preventing tyranny . The Founders knew that unarmed citizens would never be able to overthrow a tyrannical government as they did. They envisioned government as a servant, not a master, of the American people. The muskets they used against the British Army were the assault rifles of that time. It is practical, rather than alarmist, to understand that …

“Endless money forms the sinews of war.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

“Liberalism, with its ever changing totem pole of hierarchy of its causes, is like a continuous game of Jenga, except that no matter who causes it to fall, it will be the Republican’s fault.” – Rourke

"Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else’s life." – Will Rogers

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." – General George Patton

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." – George Orwell

"[P]oliticians gave us the idea that the things we could not afford individually we could somehow afford collectively through the magic of government." – Thomas Sowell

"But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty , once lost, is lost forever." – John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, July 7, 1775