Category: Quote of the Week

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” – The Dalai Lama, in The Seattle Times, May 15, 2001

“I will print money today so that people can survive.” – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, explaining the 1,800% annual inflation rate of the Zimbabwean dollar.(As quoted in Michael Panzner’s book, “Financial Armageddon“)

"In regione caecorum rex est luscus" (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.) Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536), Adagia (III, IV, 96)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." – Frederick Douglass

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." – General George S. Patton.

“…To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state’s totalitarian reach.” – Jeff Snyder, “A Nation of Cowards“

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.” – Washington Irving

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood; And fired the shot heard round the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." – The Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII, of England)

"No one will ever look out for you as well as you will look out for yourself." – Sid R. Real

“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.” – Joseph Sobran

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." – novelist Herman Wouk

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." – Ayn Rand

“Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.” – Robert Nozick

"When a place gets crowded enough to require [identification cards], social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere." – Robert A. Heinlein