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Quotes of the Day

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”

Charles Bukowski

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

Charles Bukowski

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.”

Thomas Sowell

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Quotes of the Day

“To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.”

Karl Hess

“Pride in being a law-abiding taxpayer is not the result of having helped people, which the person could have done far more effectively on a voluntary basis; the pride comes from having faithfully obeyed the commands of a perceived authority.”

Larken Rose

“Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.”

Ludwig von Mises

“Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.”

Ron Paul

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Quotes of the Day

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca

“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”

Seneca

“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”

Seneca

“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

Seneca

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Quotes of the Day

“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”

Cato

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…”

Epictetus

“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”

Seneca

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Quotes of the Day

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

Confucious

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

Cicero

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Frederick Douglass

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.”

H.L. Mencken

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Frequent Visitors

It’s baby javelina time again! “Our” little group of six that come to visit and partake in the water that we leave has grown to eight with the recent addition of two young ones.

They’re super cute, and bark like little puppies. Every day is a show when they come.

However danger lurks in the occasional coyote or golden eagle. Mama javelina is always nearby and the babies generally stay close too.

 

Quotes of the Day

“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.”

Joseph Sobran

“They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.”

Edward Snowden

“The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.”

Karl Hess

“Do this. Don’t do that. Stay back in line. Where’s tax receipt? Fill out form. Let’s see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”

Robert A. Heinlein

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Quotes of the Day

“The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.”

Ron Paul

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

H. L. Mencken

“Socialism always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man and ends with people having to eat their own pets.”

Toby Young

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”

Robert Frost

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Quotes of the Day

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery

“The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.”

Jonathan Swift

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Aldous Huxley

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