Sayings
Issue #21 Posted October 30, 2001

"I won't be wronged I won't be insulted I won't be laid a hand upon -- I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same same from them." -- J.B. Books (John Wayne) in The Shootist

I hate violence! I hate it so much I am willing to kill anyone who tries to use it against me. --  Mike Waidelich

"You must understand, therefore, that there are two ways of fighting: by law or by force. The first is the way natural to men, and the second to beast. But as the first way often proves inadequate one must needs have recourse to the second" -- Machiavelli

"Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk; and at whatever the cost, fight back!" -- -Jeff Cooper, Nov. 1993

"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men." -- Lyn Nofziger

"We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go; Always a little further; it may be; Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow; Across that angry or that glimmering sea." --  The Golden Journey to Samarkand, by James Elroy Flecker. Engraved on the SAS memorial in Hereford, UK.

"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" -- Patrick Henry

"The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently no majority has a right to deprive them of." -- Albert Gallatin

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. -- Carter Glass

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin

"The wicked have a solid interest that the good never seem to possess. The good are grand for one great rally. Then they go home and work at their business. The cohesive power of public plunder remains on the job." -- Unknown

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -- John Philpot Curran, (1750-1817)

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and thus clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken

"An act of Congress repugnant to the Constitution is not law. When the Constitution and an act of Congress are in conflict, the Constitution must govern the case to which both apply. Congress cannot confer on this court any original jurisdiction. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited, and those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten is the reason the Constitution was written." -- Marbury vs. Madison

"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

"The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

"Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it ....

"A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.

"No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it." -- -- American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Volume 16, Section 177

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom" -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Oak's Unruly Rules for Lawmakers. a) Laws expand in proportion to the resources available for their enforcement; b) Bad laws are more likely to be supplemented than repealed; c) Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws. 

Washington, DC -- Where they took a perfectly good swamp and made it into a sewer.

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.'' -- Winston Churchill

"This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exit. -- Alexander Hamilton

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune." -- Publilius Syrus - Maxim 467

"Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside; they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah, there is the sting of life." - Oscar Wilde

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. -- Damon Runyon 

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. ... the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible". -- Hubert Humphrey, Know Your Law Makers, Guns, Feb. 1960

Quote: If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? -- Will Rogers

Updated 2001-10-30 @ 1500 - Fr. Frog