Category: Quote of the Day

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." – General George S. Patton.

“…To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state’s totalitarian reach.” – Jeff Snyder, “A Nation of Cowards“

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.” – Washington Irving

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood; And fired the shot heard round the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." – The Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII, of England)

"No one will ever look out for you as well as you will look out for yourself." – Sid R. Real

“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.” – Joseph Sobran

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." – novelist Herman Wouk

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." – Ayn Rand

“Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.” – Robert Nozick

"When a place gets crowded enough to require [identification cards], social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere." – Robert A. Heinlein

“America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance — and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.” – Ayn Rand

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if …

"The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows, it’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is going to hit as hard as life, but it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward; how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done." – Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa (Rocky VI)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." – James Branch Cabell