Category: Quote of the Day

“The termination of charitable giving should be when appreciation becomes expectation.” – Rourke

“On Federal Reserve Notes, the Federal Reserve should print ‘Legal Tinder’, instead of ‘Legal Tender.’” – # 2 Son

“Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Note that Finland’s five million people own four million personal firearms. Just wait till Congressman Schumer finds out about that!” – The Late Jeff Cooper, Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol. 3, No. 2, 31 January 1995

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." – John Quincy Adams, eldest son of President John Adams and sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848

“Success – it’s what you do with what you’ve got.” – Football coach Woody Hayes

"If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back." – Eddie Rickenbacker

"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value." – Bertrand Russell

“It’s in our fallen, sinful nature for tyrants to rise up in every nation. And unfortunately, it’s also in our nature that the vast majority in every nation is either too stupid or too apathetic to do anything about it until the tyrants have put up their barbed wire and spilled a lot of blood.” – James Wesley, Rawles, Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse

"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