Category: Quote of the Day

"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

"Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long." – Congressman Ron Paul, August 9, 2004

"The monastic communities for survival will be located in high places, because in dangerous times it is heights that are easiest to defend. They enable the advance of hostile hordes to be seen from a distance and prepared for; and they favor the traditional counter- attacks that are helped by force of gravity — the rolling down of rocks and stones against assailants. Further, hilltops are naturally protected against floods; they are also very likely to be left alone by the large masses of people on the move, since migrant hordes are inclined to go after easy prey rather than …

“The new Hillary Rodham Clinton, coldly calculated to appear warm and spontaneous.”- Rourke

"To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow… For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding." – Jeff Snyder

"A man is finished when he makes pleasure, not duty, his main object," – Cicero

"Most people would rather die than think. In fact, they do." – Ralph Waldo Emerson