Category: Quote O’ The Day

What it means to take rights seriously is that one will honor them even when there is significant social cost in doing so.
—Sanford Levinson

“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

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
– Victor Hugo

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the ‘ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome’. You must be willing to fire.
– T. Boone Pickens

The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy.
— Fred L. Smith

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
-Daniel Webster.

 

Anybody who thinks Iran not having nuclear weapons benefits only Israel is a rat-brained lobotomite devoid of reasoning skills. – Cynical Publius

A well armed people make tyranny at scale far more costly. – FPC

May every mass shooter be hit by a truck then shot. – Kostas Moros

The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now.
— The Supreme Court in  South Carolina v. US, (1905)

We are becoming a nation of thieves by trying to live at everyone else’s expense. We have lost our moral mooring and the Church is partially responsible by failing to uphold its beliefs. One of the 10 Commandments says, “Thou shall not steal.” Now I am fairly confident that God did not mean, “Thou shall not steal–unless you get a majority vote.
– Walter Williams

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
– Albert Einstein

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
— Thomas Sowell

An enemy of liberty is no friend of mine. I do not owe respect to anyone who would enslave me by government force, nor is it wise for such a person to expect it.
— Isaiah Amberay

June 16, 1775

Having been informed by the President of the Continental Congress that yesterday he had been unanimously chosen to be General & Commander in Chief of the American Forces, he accepted the appointment and addressed its members

Mr. President; Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive & important trust:
However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service and for the support of the glorious cause: I beg they will accept my most cordial thanks for this distinguished testimony of their approbation.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to have accepted this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease & happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it: I will keep an exact account of my expenses; those I doubt not they will discharge and that is all I desire.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
-Thomas Sowell

The Founders expected the people to have “weapons of war” not just as a right, but as a duty, and anyone who tells you otherwise is ignorant, a liar, or both
-David Codrea