Category: Quote O’ The Day

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all — security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
— Edward Gibbon [On ancient Athens]

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
-Thomas Sowell

“It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone.  What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” Marcus Aurelius

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
— Sun Tzu

“You cannot hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.”
– Epictetus

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
– Baruch Spinoza

Never give up your guns. Any American who demands his countrymen give up theirs is either a criminally negligent incompetent at citizenship, or an evil domestic enemy who knows exactly the kind of tyranny he is salivating to unleash. -David Codrea

“You don’t get Hitler because of Hitler — there are always potential Hitlers hanging around. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the people in charge of maintaining liberal democracy are too weak and corrupt to do the job.” – Glenn Reynolds

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
— Albert Gallatin 1789

Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.
– Joseph T. Chew

“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.”
– Thomas Jefferson
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

“The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done. If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You have no idea what you have just unleashed across this entire country.” – Erika Kirk

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out. -Eugene Cernan

The Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

There has never been a time in history where the weak and the evil have been given such a loud voice. Turning the other cheek, being the bigger person, ignoring the lies—those days are over. I’ve been saying this is not complicated. It’s good vs evil—and evil will prevail until good stands up…
– Dakota Meyer, SGT USMCR, MH

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.” — President George W. Bush

“When any nation mistrusts its citizens with guns it is sending a clear message. It no longer trusts its citizens with guns because such a government has evil plans.”
— George Washington

“It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” – Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson

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