Sayings
Issue #17 Posted February 1, 2001

The first time it’s happenstance. The second time it’s coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.

Always use enough gun.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind trying to express itself forcibly." -- Jeff Cooper

"Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat." -- Herman Goering

Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." -- Thomas Jefferson

"We have the people, and, in the end we have the guns." -- Manny Fernandez, member NRA Board Of Directors

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -- William Arthur Ward

"The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach." -- Sophocles

"Many receive advice, few profit by it." --Publilius Syrus

"Tempt not a desperate man." --William Shakespeare

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- Samuel Adams

"Saying is one thing and doing is another." -- Montaigne

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." -- Mark Twain

"Truth is great and its effectiveness endures." -- Ptahhotpe

If guns cause crime, then logic follows without question that; cameras cause pornography, matches cause arson, automobiles cause accidents, bathing suits cause drowning, computers cause email, baseball bats cause home runs, blenders cause margaritas, elections cause corruption and, of course, grandmothers cause adultery.

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." -- Thucydides

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful." -- William Shakespeare

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last." --Jules Renard

"The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day." -- John Milton

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." -- Lord Byron

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor." -- Ulysses Simpson Grant

"Bravery never goes out of fashion." -- William Makepeace Thackeray

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." -- Plato

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people' (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition." -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to George Washington,15 February, 1791

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." -- Sophocles

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." -- Aristotle

"There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life." -- John Stuart Mill

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Strength to Love, Ch. 3.

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person." -- James Madison's June 8, 1789 speech to Congress proposing the Bill of Rights

"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea." -- James Madison, ibid

"Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states, or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?" -- Walter E. Williams

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience." -- Euripides

"Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame." -- Euripides

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." -- Publilius Syrus

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad." -- Thomas Carlyle

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." -- Ben Jonson

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them." -- Anatole France

"Evil is a moral problem, not a medical or psychological one." -- Charles Krauthammer

"Our era of bread and circuses has come coincidentally with the era of Pax Americana. Can the dark ages be far ahead?" -- Lyn Nofziger

"When will the media ever live up their mission to educate, instead of indoctrinate?" -- Brent Bozell

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." -- Ecclesiastes 10:2

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -- John Adams

Atlas Shrugged. Perhaps we should too.

"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter." -- E.Hemingway, "On The Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," Esquire, April, 1936

"Reflexive shooting" is habitual and unthinking behavior.

"One of the tolerable qualities of rascals is that they do not aspire above their station." -- Richard Brookhiser

"Certain moral principles can't and will never be decided by polls." -- Alan Keyes

"The greatest threat to the planet is not too many people, but too much statism." -- Stephen Moore


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