Category: Quote of the Week

“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)

“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