Quote O’ The Day – MILESFORTIS

“Not everything can be resolved through kindness, which is why angels carry swords, not flowers”
attributed to C.S. Lewis

“The only effective solution against evil and violent people is good people more skilled in violence.”
— Miyamoto Musashi

“The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
– Benjamin Franklin.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’
– Thomas Sowell

“Friendship is one of the distinguishing glories of man… From this I expect to receive the chief happiness of my future life.”
– John Adams

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.”
– James Madison

The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.
— Justice George Sutherland

Leaders who can’t be questioned end up doing questionable things.
-Jon Acuff

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
– Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson’s expansion on the Latin axiom:
ACTA NON VERBA (Deeds, not words)

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
—John Galsworthy

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans– anything except reason.
– Thomas Sowell

“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power.”
– James Madison

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.”
– Samuel Adams

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.
– Jeff Cooper

It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.
– Christopher Columbus

“The power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional forms one of the most powerful barriers that have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it. -Lewis Carroll