Category: Quote of the Day

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." – Italian Proverb

“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle. There’s only one basic human right, the right to do as you da*n well please. And with it …

"Turn to me and be saved…for I am God, and there is no other.” – Isaiah 45:22

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” – Paul Harvey

"Down one road lies disaster, down the other utter catastrophe. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose wisely." – Woody Allen

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Wilson Reagan

“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Survival of the fittest is a constant. It is what constitutes being “fittest” that varies over time.” – Rourke

"Most civilization is based on cowardice. Its so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame." – Frank Herbert, Dune

“The first indication of an oppressive law is when the law makers exempt themselves from it.” – Rourke

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." – Albert Einstein.

“It is easy to be generous with other people’s time and money.” – Rourke

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." – Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (Texas)

“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” – Bertrand de Jouvenel

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.” – Alexander Hamilton