Category: Quote of the Week

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.” – Thomas Campbell

“The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man’s mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn’t want to be free. He wants to be safe.” – H.L. Mencken

“If the statists think that they will ever totally disarm our citizenry, then they are dreaming. Even by conservative estimates there is nearly one gun for every man, woman and child in these United States. Now to put that in context, consider the current “decommissioning” process in Northern Ireland. The whole peace process there currently hinges on less than 800 guns. The IRA won’t give them up. Now please don’t misunderstand me: I don’t support the IRA. It is clearly a terrorist group with a leadership that espouses Marxist philosophy. The reason that I mention the Irish situation is to …

"As an Army officer, I learned that in order to be effective, an army must have three key abilities: To move, shoot, and communicate. Take away any one, and you are ineffective. But if you get all three right, you can absolutely devastate an opponent—even one that has vastly superior numbers." – James Wesley, Rawles

"The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious." – Ted Levitt (Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School)

"Much like a muscle that atrophies with disuse, any right that goes unexercised for many years devolves into a privilege, and eventually can even be redefined as a crime." – James Wesley, Rawles

"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

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – Gen. George Patton

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor." – Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

“The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It’s only the people who make them unsafe.” – Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia.

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are.” – Ayn Rand

"To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts form the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on the freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than words and to stand outside the totalitarian reach and speech." – Jeff Snyder

"All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus". – Dr. Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, January 24, 1996.

"Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking." – William E. Simon, Secretary of the Treasury (Nixon and Ford administrations) A Time for Truth, 1978

"Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning" (Leviticus 19:13)