Category: Quote of the Day

"$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 — by which time it will be worth nothing." – Robert A. Heinlein

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." – Otto von Bismarck (born April 1, 1815)

“[I]t doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been …

A Woman’s Ode to Survivalism, by Deborah (Moderator, JerichoCBS Forum) I’m not into fashion I like camouflage I got surveillance equipment Stashed out in my garage I don’t wear many skirts I kinda like my jeans And they go so much better with My bullets and my beans. Now don’t be thinking that I’m crazy, Not a sociopath, not even mean, But if you come a knockin’ Keep your hands where they are seen….. I got a Smith & Wesson, AK and Mossberg too, One Colt, two Berettas, A Kel-Tec.. Hmm that one’s new I don’t know when the SWHTF …

"If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." – Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943)

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." – Henry Clay (1777–1852)

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." – Ronald Wilson Reagan

“If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.” – Lynn and Larry Pardey, commenting on equipment for blue water yachtsmen

“Global warming is a runaway train going 2 m.p.h.” – Rourke

“We used to say that if you saved just ten percent of what you earned, you’d never go to the poor house. That’s one of the first lessons I learned, and I’ve tried to do something along that line since. And I’ve never gone to the poor house.” – Ernest Everett Rawles (1897-1985)

“As long as liberals refuse to concede a point, it remains ‘unsettled’.” – Anne Coulter, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, p. 48

“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 rights of the individual.” – Thomas Jefferson

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, …

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages. According to the Hay Theory …

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." – Robert A. Heinlein