Category: Quote of the Day

“I knew I’d been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said ‘Free Firewood’ and my first thought was ‘Who was Firewood, and what did he do?’” – John Berger

"Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." ("Let him who desires peace prepare for war.") Usually more simply quoted as "Si vis pacem, para bellum." – Flavius Vegetius Renatus circa (375 AD), in Epitoma rei Militaris

“Survivalists are cursed with enough intelligence and awareness to deny them the blissful ignorance under which most others live their lives.” – Rourke

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" – Thomas Jefferson, Works 8:404; P.P.N.S. p. 141.

“Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Wilson Reagan, speaking at a prayer breakfast.

"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." – William Penn

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; That his justice cannot sleep forever." – Thomas Jefferson

"Four things come not back – the spoken word, the sped arrow, times past, the neglected opportunity." – Omar ibn al Halif

“The way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State government with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down …

"It is certain that free societies will have no easy time of it in a future dark age. The rapid return of universal penury will be accompanied by violence and cruelties of a kind now forgotten. The force of law will be scant or nil, either because of collapse of machinery of state, or because of difficulties in communication and transport. It will be possible only to delegate authority to local powers who will maintain it by force alone. – Roberto Vacca, The Coming Dark Age

"Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life… There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation." – Margaret Thatcher

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves." – Dr. Walter E. Williams

“‘My country right or wrong’ is like saying, ‘My mother drunk or sober.’” – G. K. Chesterton

"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes, and the other is the Bill of Rights." – Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps 1930