Category: Quote of the Day

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." – Thomas Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1820. FE 10:175

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the ‘learned’ find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." – Ronald Wilson Reagan

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." – George Will

“It is a sad commentary on human affairs, down to our day, that ‘sweet reasonableness’ and sensible quiet argument never get very far as such-that nothing gets done until a sizable bloc of people gets organized and starts raising enough h*ll to persuade those in power that they had better start listening to what is being said.” – George F. Willison “Patrick Henry and His World”

“It is constantly reiterated that education begins in the home, as indeed it does, but what is often forgotten is that morality begins in the home also.” – Louis L’Amour, “Education of a Wandering Man“

"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected." – Will Rogers

"[T]he value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the effort and the struggle which go into the project. Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.- Helen and Scott Nearing, Living the Good Life

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." – James Madison, to the Virginia ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." – John F. Kennedy

"The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail . . . the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation." – The Late Col. Jeff Cooper, 1993.

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." – Elmer Davis

“I have benefited greatly from criticism,” he said, borrowing a line from Winston Churchill, “and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.” – Departing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

“Lunches don’t get free just because you don’t see the prices on the menu. And economists don’t get popular by reminding people of that.” – Thomas Sowell

“I have never been taken with the idea of selling a gun. When you possess a firearm, you possess something of importance. If you trade it for cash, you have lost it – and the cash in your hand will soon be gone. Sell something else! – The Late Jeff Cooper, Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries, June 11, 1993