Category: Quote O’ The Day

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence — true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington

What do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else’s money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else’s money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
– Thomas Sowell

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
— Robert Heinlein

“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

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair

Sticks and stones may break my bones but hollow points expand on impact.
unattributed

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
—Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
-Thomas Sowell

“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”
– John Jay

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
— Edward R. Murrow

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
– Thomas Jefferson

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
-Thomas Sowell

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

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
-Thomas Sowell

As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I’ve realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it’s much, much bigger than that. I’ve come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.
— Charlton Heston

The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most essential one to every free people and should not be whittled down by technical constructions.
– State vs. Kerner, 181 N.C. 574, 107 S.E. 222, at 224 (1921)

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
–James Madison

There are two ways of spreading light:
to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton