Category: Quote of the Week

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." – Edmund Burke

"When evil wins in the world, it is only by the default of the good. That is why one man of reason and moral stature is more important actually and potentially, than a million fools." – Ayn Rand

Jake: What’s this? Elwood: What? Jake: This car. This stupid car. Where’s the Cadillac? The Caddy? Where’s the Caddy? Elwood: The what? Jake: The Cadillac we used to have. The Blues Mobile! Elwood: I traded it. Jake: You traded the Blues Mobile for this? Elwood: No. For a microphone. Jake: A microphone? Okay I can see that. Well, what the h**l is this? Elwood: This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect City Police auction last spring. It’s an old Mount Prospect Police Car. They were practically giving them away. Jake: Well, thank you pal. The …

“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.” – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

“Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months – and without a new thought for years on end.” – Kent Ruth

“Tis mine to seek for life in death, Health in disease seek I, I seek in prison freedom’s breath, In traitors loyalty. So Fate that ever scorns to grant Or grace or boon to me, Since what can never be I want, Denies me what might be.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.” – Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.) Minn. “Know Your Lawmakers” Guns …

"Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened." -Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. ” – Frank Lloyd Wright

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

"The first law of every creature is that of self-preservation, of staying alive." – Niccolo Machiavelli

"The Qualities of a good intelligence officer: * Be perceptive about people * Be able to work well with others under difficult conditions * Be able to distinguish between fact and fiction * Be able to distinguish between essentials and non-essentials * Possess inquisitiveness * Have a large amount of ingenuity * Pay appropriate attention to detail * Be able to express ideas clearly, briefly and very important interestingly * Learn when to keep you mouth shut * Understanding for other points of view, other ways of thinking and behaving, even if they are quite foreign to his own. * …

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer." – Patrick Henry

"It is certain that free societies would have no easy time in a future dark age. The rapid return to universal penury will be accomplished by violence and cruelties of a kind now forgotten. The force of law will be scant or nil., either because of the collapse or disappearance of the machinery of state, or because of difficulties of communications and transport. It may be possible only to delegate authority to local powers who will maintain it by force alone." – Roberto Vacca, The Coming Dark Age

“If Calvera comes riding in with no idea of the reception we’ve prepared for him, I promise you we’ll all teach him something about the price of corn!” – Yul Brynner as Chris Adams, The Magnificent Seven