Category: Quote of the Week

“Commander Harken: For some the war’ll never be over. I notice your ship’s called Serenity. You were stationed on Hera at the end of the war. Battle of Serenity Valley took place there, if I recall. Captain Reynolds: You know, I believe you might be right. Commander Harken: Independents suffered a pretty crushing defeat there. Some say after Serenity, the Browncoats were through. That the war really ended in that valley. Captain Reynolds: Hmmm. Commander Harken: Seems odd you’d name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of. Captain Reynolds: May have been the losing side. …

"Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without." – Traditional American Folk Saying on Thrifty Living

"Proximus sum egomet mihi." ("Charity begins at home.") – Publius Terentius Afer ("Terence"), Andria (Act IV, sec. 1, 12)

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." – Edmund Burke

"If I can recognize the danger at long range, I’ll deactivate it from a safe distance. The rifle is one of the better long range danger deactivators." – Jim Woods.

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient." – Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592), French Philosopher and Essayist

“The first rule in investing: don’t lose any money. The second rule: don’t forget the first rule.” – Warren Buffett

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” – Ronald Reagan

"Note that mere ownership of a firearm does not render the owner armed any more than ownership of a guitar renders the owner a musician. The wild cry, “My life is in danger, give me a gun!” is the plaint of a fool. The time to acquire one’s weapons and learn how to use them is before the riots start, not afterwards." – Col. Jeff Cooper

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from …

“Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately,  creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.” – Robert A. Heinlein

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.” – Rudyard Kipling

Dr. Rudi Gunn: “Hold on, how do I cross the border?  I never took survival training.” Dirk Pitt: “Consider this your course, Rudi…” Al Giordino (interrupting): “…It’s kind of pass/fail, which I was told is easier.” – from the action-adventure film Sahara (2005)