Quote O’ The Day – Page 27

“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

“There is no comparison whatever between an armed and disarmed man; it is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.
– James Burgh

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
-Thomas Sowell

The pool of guns that get turned in in buybacks are simply not the same guns that would otherwise have been used in crime.
— Harvard professor David Kennedy, as reported on FoxNews

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.
— George Orwell

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”
– Alexander Hamilton

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
-Thomas Jefferson

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it. — J. Norman Collie

“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
–Voltaire

I suggest the reading Lone Star Planet by H Beam Piper

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State.
–Alexander Hamilton

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
― Martin Luther King Jr.