Are we God's sheep because we follow him? Or do we follow him because we are His sheep? One indicates salvation through works, the other salvation through faith. -Anonymous

Historically, the claim of concensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. -Michael Crichton

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed? -C.S. Lewis

Our adversaries believe that an activity that is neither subsidized nor regulated is abolished. We believe the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind. Ours is in mankind, not in the legislator. -Frédéric Bastiat

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. -C.S. Lewis

Whenever you hear the concensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet because you're being had. -Michael Crichton

The socialists who have invented these follies, and who in days of distress plant them in the minds of the masses, generously confer on themselves the title of "forward-looking" men, and there is a real danger that usage, that tyrant of language, will ratify both the word and the judgment it implies. "Forward-looking" assumes that these gentlemen can see ahead much further than ordinary people; that their only fault is to be too much in advance of their century; and that, if the time has not yet arrived when certain private services, allegedly parasitical, can be eliminated, the fault is with the public, which is far behind socialism. To my mind and knowledge, it is the contrary that is true, and I do not know to what barbaric century we should have to return to find on this point a level of understanding comparable to that of the socialists. -Frédéric Bastiat

The implicit premise is that no one can be secure unless everyone is treated as a criminal suspect. -David M. Brown

The State is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody. -Frederic Bastiat

Reliance on individual initiative and responsibility is no sin. -Tibor R Machan and Mark Thronton

...it is easier to promise the impossible than to do it. -Frederic Bastiat

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. -C.S. Lewis

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they have specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous. -H.J. Eysenck

Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. -C.S. Lewis

In a skeptic's world, if you stop beating a dead horse and walk away, it will eventually get up and tell everyone it crossed the finish line ahead of you. -Anonymous

In all things, religion is useless.  But a personal relationship with God is indespensable. -Ben Johnson