Category: Quote of the Day

"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

"The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings." – Theodore Rooseve

“It is one of the great ironies of our modern “civilized” era that in most of the places where you don’t feel the need to carry a firearm for self defense you can legally do so if you choose. But in most of places where you do indeed justifiably feel the immediate need to carry a gun, they are banned.” – James Wesley, Rawles

"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." – Matthew 5:14-16

"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race." – William Howard Taft

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." – John Adams

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." – Galileo Galilei