"Freedom isn’t purchased or held indefinitely, it’s more like a loan that’s never paid off. The “payment” is constant vigilance against government encroachment; by our grandfathers, our fathers, and us. If the payments are ignored, the penalty will be collected in blood from our sons and daughters." – Jim Howard, 2003
“So you think that money is the root of all evil? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? . …Not …
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life." – Winston Churchill
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison, written in The Federalist, No. 47, 1788.
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." – William Menninger
"Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it." – Edmund Burke
"It is only when we stop believing right, that we stop doing right." – SurvivalBlog reader Mark R.
"In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war." – Horace (65-8 BC) This quote inspired a modern corollary: "In plenty, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for hardship." – SurvivalBlog reader CW (2006 AD)
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." – Alexis de Tocqueville
"When money is going down in value, you want to have it in something besides a bank." – Will Rogers
"If the public judges the movie people by some of the interviews that appear in print, they must wonder how they ever kept out of the asylum." – Will Rogers
"The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty – that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men." – George Washington (General Orders, 23 August, 1776)
"True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation." – Theophrastus
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." – Theodore Roosevelt
“A billion here, and billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” – Senator Everett Dirksen