Category: Quote O’ The Day

“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

“The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted…”
– John Jay

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
– John Adams

“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

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

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

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

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

“Wear none of thine own chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.”
– William Penn

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion.
– Thomas Sowell

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph — a tumultuous parade.
In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him.
Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning — that all glory is fleeting.
– General George S. Patton

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

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

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

“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction.”
— Ronald Reagan

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
– Thomas Sowell

“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