Category: Quote O’ The Day

“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, and the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 – establishes the repeated, complete, and inevitable failure of gun laws to control crime.”
– Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) quoted from “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Report of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1982, p. vii.”

Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
– Thomas Sowell

“There’s only one basic principle of self-defense. You must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.”
– Bruce Lee

“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

“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

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