Jim’s Quote of the Day:
"Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation!" – Psalm 95:1
"Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation!" – Psalm 95:1
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." – Theodore Roosevelt
"A little change in your life is a good thing. A significant change to your body temperature is not a good thing." – James Wesley, Rawles
“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts — the less you know the hotter you get.” – Bertrand Russell
"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." – Oliver Wendell Holmes
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And, it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." – Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court (1939-1975)
"A man oughta do what he thinks is right." – John Wayne as Hondo Lane, in Hondo
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible and wrong." — H. L. Mencken
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." – Anatole France
“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” – John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist
"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it." – Nelson Bunker Hunt
“Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit [is] falsehood. Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.” – Psalm 119:114-119 (KJV)
“A rifle without ammunition is a club, unless an attached bayonet upgrades it to a spear.” – Rourke
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." – Cornelius Tacitus, 55-117 AD, Roman historian
"We’re advising our clients to put everything they’ve got into canned foods and shotguns.”- The Brain Gremlin, Gremlins 2