Category: Quote of the Day

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance" – Thomas Jefferson

“No man’s life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session.” – Judge Gideon Tucker

"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail." – Ben Franklin

“The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.” – Bill Bonner, Editor of The Daily Reckoning

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson

“If wisdom’s ways you wisely seek, Five things observe with care: To whom you speak, Of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.” – Caroline L. Ingalls (Mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder)

"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. … and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." – St. George Tucker, Virginia Supreme Court Judge, 1803

"Make preparations in advance… You never have trouble if you are prepared for it." – Theodore Roosevelt

“Harry: Look sweetheart, for the next few weeks survival is going to have to be on an individual level. Ann: What do you want to do, write off the rest of the world? Harry: When civilization gets civilized again, I’ll rejoin.” – Ray Milland, Panic in the Year Zero

"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace–but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me …

“A billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” – Senator Everett Dirksen

“Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, ‘the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.” – Justice Charles Evans Hughes

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." – President John F. Kennedy

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe