The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

James Wesley Rawles July 23, 2025 July 23, 2025

“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human
happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others
extremely difficult.” – Samuel Johnson, Letter to Boswell, 7 December 1782, in James Boswell’s ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 4, p. 157

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James Wesley, Rawles (JWR) is Founder and Senior Editor of SurvivalBlog, the original prepping /survival blog for when the Schumer Hits The Fan (SHTF). He began SurvivalBlog in 2005. It now reaches more than 320,000 unique visitors weekly.
JWR is a journalist, technical writer, and novelist. His survivalist novel Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, is a modern classic that reached #3 on the New York Times bestsellers list. Two of his other novels have also been best New York Times bestsellers.
Jim is the originator of the American Redoubt movement and a frequent talk show and podcast guest. He is also a retreat consultant specializing in off-grid living, rural relocation, and survival preparedness.

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