Category: Quote of the Week

"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

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Judge. Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)

"The paper money disease has been a pleasant habit thusfar and will not be dropped voluntarily any more than a dope user will without a struggle give up narcotics… I find no evidence to support a hope that our fiat paper money venture will fare better ultimately than such experiments in other lands…" – Nebraska Congressman Howard Buffett, 1948 (The father of Warren Buffett.) As quoted in Financial Reckoning Day.

"With one foot on the land and one foot in industry, America is safe." – Henry Ford, circa WWII.

“Uh… Strangers… I hate this. Do they want to share what they got or take what you got? Do you say ‘hi’ or do you blow them away?” – Kevin Costner, The Postman

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." – J. R. R. Tolkien

"I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green." – Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse