Quotes on Liberty, Constitution, Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment, Self-Reliance, This Day in History

Gardening is the occupation of delightfully solving the problems of the world:

“All the world's problems can be solved in a garden.”
– Geoff Lawton, (world's foremost Permaculture teacher, #1 student of the Bill Mollison, the founder of Permaculture)

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
– Thomas Jefferson

• One of the most powerful lessons from Jefferson – teaching, advising, talking about and sharing seeds for gardening was paramount to his philosophy.
• Why I call Jefferson the Permaculture President – 150 years before permaculture was put to paper.
• Some examples of Jefferson’s Permaculture – microclimates (walls and high spots), water management (terraces), soil management (integration of animals and rotations - Multi-Species Rotational Grazing to Maximize Food and Income in a TEOTWAWKI World, by J.B. - SurvivalBlog.com) He also didn’t seem to believe in weeding or worrying about pests (sound like someone you know?)
• The strange feeling you get when you look at the dates and realize that when Jefferson wasn’t helping found our country (and sometime in spite of) he was gardening!

Fair Use Source: Episode 177 How Thomas Jefferson Gardened « The Self-Sufficient Gardener - This is an excellent podcast for modern survivalist-prepper gardeners.

 

On the Dollar:
"At the head of the caravan on the road to ruin is the dollar, journeying from good as gold (before 1913 and the Federal Reserve Act) to “accounting unit,” conjured from thin air by Stockman’s “monetary politburo”—the central bank. The last mile was President Nixon’s 1971 elimination of vestigial dollar-gold convertibility, for foreign central banks. Convertibility was the parent in the house who kept the high schooler’s party from getting out of hand. Once it went to bed, Washington cranked up the music, broke out the beer and bongs, wrecked the furniture, and jumped joyously naked into a back-bedroom group grope. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have been government deficits and their central bank enablers: debt monetization, interest rate suppression (N.I.R.P.), and balance sheet expansion."
-- David Stockman, highly influential budget director (Office of Management and Budget) under President Ronald Reagan (1981-85):
Fair Use Source: “Ignore At Your Peril”: A Review Of The Great Deformation | David Stockman's Contra Corner

 

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Dante passes through the gate of Hell, which bears an inscription, the ninth (and final) line of which is the famous phrase "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

 

On Thinking:
“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton

 

On Leftist Methods:
“The idea that government doesn’t grant rights is offensive to those who wish to control our lives. Therefore, to gain greater control, the idea of natural rights, God-given rights and Christian values must be suppressed. The idea that rights precede government was John Locke’s natural law philosophy, which had a significant influence on our nation’s founders, but they chose to refer to natural law as rights endowed by the Creator. The attack on Christian ideas and Christian public displays is part and parcel of the Leftist control agenda in another way. Certain components of the Leftist agenda require that our primary allegiance be with government. As such, there must be an attack on allegiances to the teachings of the church and family. After all, for example, if you want popular acceptance of homosexual marriages, there must be a campaign against church teachings that condemn such practices. Emboldened by their successes in the courts and intimidation of public officials, Leftists will no doubt make other demands; there’s no logical end point except complete Christian capitulation. There are Christian symbols and exhibits in many Washington, DC, government buildings that will come down, such as: Moses with the Ten Commandments inside the U.S. Supreme Court, George Washington praying in the Capitol Building, Abraham Lincoln’s speech mentioning God carved inside the Lincoln Memorial. Religious programming on the radio and television will come under attack. After all, there’s Federal Communications Commission permission to use the ‘public airwaves.’ If Leftists say they have no such intention to go after television, radio and other public expressions of Christianity, what they really mean is that they haven’t softened us up enough yet. I’m not quite sure of just how we should respond to the ongoing attack on Christianity and American values, but we’d better do something quickly.” – Dr. Walter Williams, african american conservative libertarian

 

On Islam:
“Inasmuch as liberals are demanding that Americans ritualistically proclaim, ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ Muslims might do their part by not killing people all the time.” – Ann Coulter

 

Though..... Some places and people feel that America is also violent. Some would say that America is the nation of peace. Right now Fox is running a clip from Harvard and this male thinks America is the greater threat to world peace then ISIS.

 

Is it Noam Chomsky?

 

On Education and Morality:
“It is constantly reiterated that education begins in the home, as indeed it does, but what is often forgotten is that morality begins in the home also.” – Louis L’Amour, “Education of a Wandering Man“

 

No, but this is:
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”

I think that is what they are teaching at Harvard. Yet if one thinks about it, there are times we feel terrorized by those that are elected to keep us safe or those that have been hired to serve and protect.

 

“It is a sad commentary on human affairs, down to our day, that ‘sweet reasonableness’ and sensible quiet argument never get very far as such-that nothing gets done until a sizable bloc of people gets organized and starts raising enough h*ll to persuade those in power that they had better start listening to what is being said.” – George F. Willison, Patrick Henry and His World

 

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the ‘learned’ find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

 

“Great cities, the emblems of Western Civilization, began as a walled defenses against marauding enemies. In a world turned upside-down, they are now our great vulnerability. They are suicidal concentrations of expensive economic, cultural and political assets waiting, exposed, for destruction. The only way to ignore nuclear terrorism will be to “redeploy” preemptively out of the crosshairs. Within years our cities will die – abandoned or incinerated.” –“Flamethrower”, at the FreeRepubliic Forums

 

“Note that Finland’s five million people own four million personal firearms. Just wait till Congressman Schumer finds out about that!” – The Late Jeff Cooper, Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries Vol. 3, No. 2, 31 January 1995

 

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

 

"It should be clear to all by now that federal bureaucracies are either too corrupt, politicized, or incompetent to fulfill their core missions. The purpose of bureaucracies is to continually expand their payroll, budgets, and missions to the point of becoming massive, inefficient, and deadly. We will have to take care of ourselves if we want to survive. Waiting for more CDC directives and guidelines is worse than counterproductive." -- Richard Amerling, M.D., Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, at wnd.com

 

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.” – Alexander Tyler, on the Fall of the Athenian Republic.

 

“Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.” – Robert A. Heinlein

 

Today in History:
October 27th, 1858 was the birthday of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. He died January 6, 1919.

Theodore Roosevelt remarked a century ago that our society was perfecting its "cult of nonvirility" with "untried men who lived at ease."

Here are several more quotes from one of our greatest presidents:

“Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtue, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

“When they call the roll in Congress, our Congressmen don’t know whether to answer present, or guilty.” – Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 1st US Volunteer Cavalry, Manzanillo, Cuba 1898 (to a Hearst newspaper reporter)

“To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.”

Individuality, Courage, and Manhood of Theodore Roosevelt:
Here is what the great conservative libertarian author Boston T. Party (author of Boston's Gun Bible) has to say about T.R. in Boston's book Module for Manhood: What Every Man Must Know, Volume 1 of 3:

T.R. was a Prime Example of Wholesome 'Bad-Assery':

"On 5 March 1904, while in office, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote:
“I am wrestling with two Japanese wrestlers three times a week. I am not the ago or the build, one would think, to be whirled lightly over an opponent's head and batted down on a mattress without damage; but they are so skilled that I have not been hurt at all. My throat is a little sore, because once when one of them had strangle hold I also got hold of his windpipe and thought I could perhaps choke him off before he could choke me. However, he got ahead!”

Seven years later, while campaigning for President of the Progressive Party candidate, T.R. was shot in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver. Instead of rushing off to the hospital, he insisted on first giving a 45 minute speech!

“Friend, I shall have to ask you to be as quiet as possible. I do not know whether you fully understand that I have been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But, fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech! And, friends, the hole in it is where the bullet went though, and it probably saved the bullet from going into my heart. The bullet is in me now so that I cannot make a very long speech. But I will try my best...
First of all, I want to say this about myself. I have altogether too many important things to think of to pay any heed or to feel any concern over my own death... I want you to understand that I am ahead of the game anyway. No man has had a happier life than I have had, a happier life in every way... I am not speaking for myself at all – I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot, not a rap. I have had a good many experiences in my time, and this is only one of them. And this is only one them.”

Except for Presidents Andrew Jackson (and possibly George Washington), no President was every such a bad-ass. T.R. had a Real Man's attitude:

“There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gunfighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. Most men can have the same experience if they choose.” – Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Who is a 'bad-ass'? It's a man who owns his fears courageously in order to live right at the edge."
Fair Use Source: From Kenneth W. Royce (Boston T. Party - Author of Boston's Gun Bible and Molan Labe! - A Novel)'s Module for Manhood: What Every Man Must Know, Volume 1 of 3, Javelin Press, Wyoming, The American Redoubt (Free State Wyoming), February 2014, pp. 5/27-28 on Individuality, Courage, & Manhood

 

“It’s time [for the Federal "Welfare state" government] to stop bribing me with my own money.” – New Hampshire Rep. Dan Itse, author of New Hampshire’s sadly moribund state sovereignty bill, HR 645.