"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world
peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until
the looting started..."
"The world consists largely of weak men made and kept free by better men than themselves." - John Stuart Mill, 1865
One loves to possess arms, thought they hope they never have occasion for them"
--Thomas Jefferson to George Washington -1796
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-Chinese Proverb
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it, but downright force: whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.... The great object is, that every man be armed.
- Patrick Henry
Speech in the Virginia Convention
June 5, 1788
"Are you interested in preventing violence? Or just guns?"
"Russia, France, China, Germany. Haven't they ALL invaded and subjugated neighboring countries in the past 200 years or so? Funny how so many people look to these countries for "peace"."
"GUN CONTROL NOW
people control tomorrow"
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. "
--Jack Handy
"The best way to help the poor and ignorant people of the world is not to be one of them!" Rev. Ike
"You cannot make footprints in the sands of time if you are sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time. "
"My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family." -Emo Phillips-
"The problem with ‘post-modern’ society is there are too many people with nothing meaningful to do, building ‘careers’ around controlling the lives of others and generally making social nuisances of themselves. They justify their meddling by discovering social ‘problems’ and getting the media to magnify them out of all proportion."
-Graham Strachan
"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners." ~~ Charlton Heston
"Be not afraid of any man, no matter what his size. When trouble rises, call on me and I will equalize."
PATTON: "The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home."
"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." --Ted Nugent
"In order to ban guns, you must first ban knowledge of guns. In order to ban knowledge of guns, you must first ban knowledge itself." - L. Neil Smith
"The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90 MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20." - Sam Cohen
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton
"An elected despotism is not the government we fought for." Thomas Jefferson "
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson
"A knifeless man is a lifeless man” Viking Dictum
"Never part with your weapons when you are in the field. You never know when, on some lengthy plain, you may suddenly need your spear." Viking Dictum
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. -- Thomas Sowell
THE GIPPER
"Free people must voluntarily through open debate and democratic means, meet
the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion. It's up to us, in our
time, to choose and choose wisely between the hard but necessary task of
preserving peace and freedom and the temptation to ignore our duty and
blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by
day." --Ronald Reagan (1983)
OPINION IN BRIEF
"Well, increasingly I can't help but think that the liberals of Europe and
the Leftists of America (there's still hope for our liberals) have lost the
energy and the conviction to defend themselves. They cannot grasp that our
enemies -- especially those hailing from the Third World -- cannot be
reasoned with. It doesn't matter if we wronged them in the past. It doesn't
matter if their historical grievances have weight. What matters, as a matter
of pure survival and morality, is what they believe today and what they do
because of those beliefs." --Jonah Goldberg
"Liberals still believe they can create the ultimate society, without realizing that they had it and screwed it up"
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato (429-347 BC)
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well
please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the
consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke (1993)
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
-Winston Churchill-
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
-Winston Churchill-
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan (1986)
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you." -Pericles (430 B.C.)
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which he
proposes to pay off with your money." --G. Gordon Liddy
"Washington didn't use his right to free speech to defeat the British, he shot them."
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! Bertol Brecht.
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap.
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, 'ow's yer soul? "
But it's " Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin to roll –Kipling-
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no
match for a good blaster at your side, kid." -Han Solo-
"Then you will see the rise of men of the double standard -- the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money -- the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law -- men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims -- then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them." -Ayn Rand-
"Rain falls on the just and the unjust, but really the rain falls mostly on the just because the unjust have stolen all the umbrellas."
GOLD is for the mistress - silver for the maid" -
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade! "
" Good! " said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
But Iron - Cold Iron - is master of them all." –Kipling-
"...From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? ...If we look to the answer as to why, for so many years, we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here, in this land, we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth..." -Ronald Reagan, 1981 Inaugural Address-
“The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proven to always be possible."
-Senator Hubert Humphrey, 1960-
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary americans." - Bill Clinton (USA Today, 3/11/93 PG. 2-A)
"When the world is at peace, a Samauri keeps his sword at his side." -Japanese Proverb
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"I don't mind it when stupid people say stupid things. Stupid people should be encouraged to say stupid things, that way we always know who the stupid people are." ~ Ted Nugent - Fox News, 2002.
"If you're taking flak, you must be over the target."
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Countries having successful gun control laws in the 20th Century -- and the results of the laws:
1915-1917 Ottoman Turkey, 1.5 million Armenians murdered
1929-1953 Soviet Union, 20 million people that opposed Stalin were murdered.
1933-1945 Nazi occupied Europe, 13 million Jews, Gypsies and others that opposed Hitler, murdered
1948-1952 China, 20 million anti-communists or communist reformers, murdered
1960-1981 Guatemala, 100,000 Maya Indians, murdered
1971-1979 Uganda, 300,000 Christians and political rivals of Idi Amin, murdered
1975-1979 Cambodia, 1 million educated persons, murdered
1995 Srebrenica Bosnians disarmed by the UN, the UN withdrew, Srebrenica was overrun and over 8,000 now-disarmed people were murdered by the Serb army.
That’s more than 2000 unarmed men, women and children murdered by their own government for every single day in the 20th century." -JPFO-
"In my continuing, but not successful, effort to preserve semantic purity, I suggest that the Arab attack on the World Trade Center was an atrocity, rather than a tragedy. Rhodesia is a tragedy." –Jeff Cooper-
"A rattlesnake in the living room ends all discussion about animal rights".
- anonymous
"Capitalism isn't a program or a system like "socialism," but a description of reality like "the Pythagorean theorem." Deal with it."
"Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will allow your enemies to nibble you to death." - L. Neil Smith
From Big Jake John Wayne:
"Since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learn to respect your betters".
"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible."
-Machiavelli
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -Solomon Short-
"So... where ARE we going, and WHY are we in this handbasket?!?"
"This is the AK47 Assault Rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; It makes a distinctive sound when fired at you."
"Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks."
--Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785.
"...The power to do good is also the power to do harm…” - Milton Friedman-
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls & looks like work" Thomas Edison
"One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure — and in some cases I have — that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy." -Jeff Cooper, "Cooper vs. Terrorism", Guns & Ammo Annual, 1975
"God made us in his own image.
Thomas Jefferson made us free.
John Browning made us equal.
Without Browning, we might not know about the other two..."
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm." -George Orwell
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." - The Federal Farmer, 1788
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the
animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams
Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt (1783)
[It] isn't so much that Liberals are ignorant.
It's just that they know so much that isn't so. -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (1964)
"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." -- Winston Churchill
"If you wake up in the morning, you're ahead of the game." -- my father
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war." Ps 144
"Let's roll..." T. Beamer, American Hero
I wouldn't hurt thee for the world, but thou art standing where I intend to shoot. [Quaker warning]
If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack. - Colonel Jeff Cooper
“Oh, you hate your job? Well why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that... it's called "EVERYONE", and we all meet at the BAR!” - Drew Carey
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous.
If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
—The more corrupt the state is, the more numerous are the laws.
(Tacitus, Annales)
"I'd like to see the Ann Frank diary read like this: 'The Gestapo found our hiding place yesterday. Father met them on the stairway with his Mauser. After all the noise we had to leave. Switzerland is very nice. I'm looking forward to starting my new school.' "
“Many of us don't look at firearms as weapons to kill our fellow human beings as much as objects of art, and treasures of human design...hallowed pieces of sporting equipment used by honest citizens in pursuit of recreational pleasure and peace of mind.” -“Picher” on Hunters.com-
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
"Well, we know what motivates the hoplophobe. He simply envies the man who can cope where he, the hoplophobe, cannot. A skilled, armed man lives on a plane of security and contentment different from that of others. This is not egalitarian! The man who cannot cut it, envies, fears, and sometimes hates the man who can." – Jeff Cooper
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stewart Mill-
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. " -Ayn Rand-
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -Jeff Cooper-
As Heinlein put it, "An armed society is a polite society."
"Molon Labe"- Leonidas to Xerxes at Themopylae
"A well Regulated Militia,
being necessary to the security
of a free state. The right of the
people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed."
