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Shield Us From EMP & CME – Today’s Quote
It is critical that we protect our major transformers from cascading destruction. The Shield Act encourages industry to develop standards necessary to protect our electric infrastructure against both natural and man-made EMP events…
Rep. Trent Franks via Lights out: House plan would protect nation’s electricity from solar flare, nuclear bomb | WashingtonExaminer.com
Conservatives Damage the Constitution – Today’s Quote
Conservatives who favor federal “wars” on drugs, gambling and other behaviors should understand the damage they have done to the constitutional underpinnings of limited government.
Dr. George Will via Tax-based morality: Slipping the constitutional leash
Andrew’s Note: I never cease to be amazed by the fact that in many places the government protects the people from the ‘evils’ of gambling by granting itself the sole concession in the form of State run lotteries or from the ‘evils’ of drinking by only offering alcohol through State owned ‘ABC’ stores. How can anything be a crime when there is no victim? In the land of the free we should even be free to make poor decisions.
Liddy on Strength – Today’s Quote
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
The Joy of Fatherhood – Today’s Quote
Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Forbes on Preparation – Today’s Quote
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
The Nuge on Vegetarians – Today’s Quote
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Excellence is a Habit – Today’s Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Death of Fear – Today’s Quote
Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Douglass on Freedom – Today’s Quote
Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
Frederick Douglass
Clinton on Privacy – Today’s Quote
I believe in a zone of privacy.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Sweet on Redistribution of Wealth – Today’s Quote
Robin Hood.. could probably get elected the Mayor of Nottingham.
Serfdom on the Installment Plan – Today’s Quote
No American government can take away all our freedoms at one time. But a slow and steady erosion of freedom can accomplish the same thing on the installment plan. We have already gone too far down that road. F.A. Hayek
How far we continue down that road depends on whether we keep our eye on the ball — freedom — or allow ourselves to be distracted by predatory demagogues…
Dr. Thomas Sowell via The Bullying Pulpit
Americans Deserve the IRS – Today’s Quote
Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do…
In order to squeeze out of us half of what we produce [taxes and regulatory burden], a government tax collection agency must be ruthless and able to put the fear of God into its citizens. The IRS has mastered that task. Congress has given it powers that would be deemed criminal if used by others…
The bottom line is that members of Congress need such a ruthless tax collection agency as the IRS because of the charge we Americans have given them. We want what the IRS does — namely, to take the earnings of one American so Congress can create a benefit for some other American. Don’t get angry with IRS agents. They are just following orders.
Grossman on Sheep Wolves and Sheepdogs – Today’s Quote
If you are a warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7 for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself… “Baa.”
Lieutenant Colonel (RET) Dave Grossman
A Mathematician on Insecurity – Today’s Quote
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
Adams on Property, Security and Liberty – Today’s Quote
Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.
President John Adams
Smith on Mercy to the Innocent – Today’s Quote
…mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent…
Rickover on the Bureaucracy – Today’s Quote
If you must sin, then sin against God and not against the bureaucracy, for God may forgive you, but the bureaucracy never will.
Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900-1986)
Took All As No More Than Their Just Dues – Today’s Quote
From my earliest childhood I have been toiling & wearing my heart out for other people, who took all I could do & suffer for them as no more than their just dues.
Senator John Randolph
Ike on Simple Pleasures and Survival – Today’s Quote
Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.
President & General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
