"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. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer." – Patrick Henry, 1736-1799
“Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost…A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous “helicopter drop” of money.” – incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Deflation: Making Sure ‘It’ Doesn’t Happen Here (Remarks to the National Economists’ Club, Washington, DC, Nov 21, 2002)
"Your failure to be informed, does not make me a whacko." – John Loeffler, host of the Steel on Steel radio program
"The world is not the way they tell you it is." – Adam Smith, 1723-1790, economist and philosopher
“The more I learn about people and society the more I love guns and explosives. Guns and explosives are more understandable, more predictable, and less hazardous.” – Joe Huffman (Joe is one of the chief organizers of Idaho’s annual Boomershoot. See: http://www.boomershoot.org/ Also see Joe’s wonderfully addictive blog: http://blog.joehuffman.org/
"For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them." – John Calvin, 1509-1564
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible and wrong." — H. L. Mencken
"The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings." – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Lord Chancellor of Japan, August 1588, the order that instituted "The Great Sword Hunt"
"Nothing just happens in politics. If something happens you can be sure it was planned that way." – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people in the world." – Neil Postman, author, and NYU professor, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Penguin Books, 1985
"On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." – Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
"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
"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 magazine, …