Sayings
Issue #9 posted 1999-04-17
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, 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. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on the guilt." -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
" The government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, 1893-1952
"Only interested people are interesting." -- Jeff Cooper
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. But it is their strength that will decide whether the human race must relapse into that state of stupor which a deluded multitude today regard as the ideal." -- Albert Einstein
"No man escapes when freedom fails, the best men rot in filthy jails, and those that cried appease, appease, are hanged by those they tried to please." -- Author unknown.
Anyone who gets in a fair fight...has no tactical skills,
If we're not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." -- William Penn
The measure of man is what he does with power. -- Pittacus.
"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." -- Samuel Pepys
"Matrimony. . . is no more than a form of friendship recognized by the police" -- Robert Louis Stevenson
" It is amazing how complete is the illusion that beauty is goodness" -- Count Leo Tolstoy
" We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth." -- Voltaire
"For who hath one mind hath but one face." -- John Donne
Scott (to Native Americans): "You can't attack the white
men now, Chief. It'll break the peace."
Chief (pointing at corpses): "Dead enemies best way to
peace."
"Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." ("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD).
"The man holds no gift who loves freedom when it is his own. Let me see him praise it in others." -- Demosthenes
"He who goes about unarmed in Paradise probably hasn't figure out how he got there so prematurely." -- D.V.C. Flubber
" The critical factor for the small unit on the battlefield is its power to generate violence." -- Maj. Chris Keeble, The Parachute Regiment
Everything I need to know about hunting, I learned from my cat.
When everyone is out to get you, paranoia is adaptive.
"Do not try the patience of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger"
"Qui est dator, hunc amant Salvator. Omnis avarus"( The Savior loves a cheerful giver, no one loves a miser.)
"Qui falsitate vivant aninam occidit. Falsus in ore, caret honore" ( Who lives in falsehood slays his soul, whose speech is false, his honor)
"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do." -- Gen. George Patton
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." -- William Burroughs
"What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress." -- Wm. Arthur Ward
Any time you think you're a leader, put away your ability to punish and see if anyone is still following you.
"As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors." -- Colonel Curtis LeMay
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer." -- Major Holdridge, 1994
"In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military." -- General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
A communist is someone who has nothing and wants to share it with you.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams, 1776
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." -- Charles Dickens.
"I'm politically incorrect and damn proud of it. I love my country, but I'm scared to death of it's government." -- Blackie Lawless
"A strict observance of the laws is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by scrupulous adherence of written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us..." -- Thomas Jefferson
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -- Lincoln, 1st inaugural April 4, 1861
"The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the oppression, if they are strong enough, either by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable." -- Grant, Memoirs, 1885