Category: Quote of the Day

"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory." – F.W. Faber

“Terrorists aren’t interested in guilt or innocence, or whether it’s Iraqi or American blood they spill. They’re just out to kill, maim and destroy. Anybody. The purpose is to instill fear and create the kind of chaos in which their kind prospers — a power vacuum they can fill.” – Paul Greenberg

"There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun — a Swiss watch and a woman from anywhere." – John Ireland as Cherry Valance in Red River, 1948

"As long as law-abiding citizens assume no personal responsibility for combating crime, liberal and conservative programs will fail to contain it." – Jeffrey Snyder, A Nation of Cowards

"The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered the palladium of the liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." – Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story, 1833

"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice." – Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

King of Swamp Castle [gesturing toward the window]: One day, lad, all this will be yours. Prince Herbert: Wot? The curtains? King of Swamp Castle: No, not the curtains, lad! All that you can see stretched out over the valleys and the hills! That’ll be your kingdom, lad. When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a …

"In truth, a state that deprives its law-abiding citizens of the means to effectively defend themselves is not civilized but barbarous…revealing its totalitarian nature by its tacit admission that the disorganized, random havoc created by criminals is far less a threat than are men and women who believe themselves free and independent, and act accordingly." – Jeffrey Snyder, A Nation of Cowards

"Whenever Destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to it’s owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of a arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not …

“Inasmuch as liberals are demanding that Americans ritualistically proclaim, ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ Muslims might do their part by not killing people all the time.” – Ann Coulter

"The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state." – Ludwig Von Mises

“For extraordinary heroism, distinguished service, and devotion above and beyond the call of duty. During the first attack by Japanese airplanes on the Naval Air Station, Kanoehe Bay, on 7 December 1941, Lieutenant Finn promptly secured and manned a 50-caliber machine gun mounted on an instruction stand in a completely exposed section of the parking ramp, which was under heavy enemy machine-gun strafing fire. Although painfully wounded many times, he continued to man this gun and to return the enemy’s fire vigorously and with telling effect throughout the enemy strafing and bombing attacks and with complete disregard for his own …

"Out here, due process is a bullet." John Wayne, as Col. Mike Kirby, The Green Berets, 1968

"In the questions of power, then, let no more be heard of the confidence in man, but bind him down by the chains of the Constitution." – Thomas Jefferson

#2 Son, in the back seat of the car: "What was that I just saw run across the road? I just caught a glimpse." #1 Son: "I think it was a chipmunk." JWR, at the wheel: "To be precise, that was a Lesser Western Black Deathwish Chipmunk." #2 Son: "How can you tell the variety?" JWR: "Ah! Good question. The Deathwish subspecies nearly always starts to cross the road but then displays its second thoughts by stopping and rushing back from whence it came. Their odds of making it across a road are slightly better than playing Russian roulette."