Sayings
Issue #11 posted
1999-10-27
Freedom! Be ever vigilant, lest you be tricked into slavery.
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." -- Patrick Henry
There are 4 boxes at the corners of American freedom--Soap, Ballot, Jury and Cartridge.
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important, but especially so at a moment when rights the most essential to our welfare have been violated." --Thomas Jefferson
"If men are not ruled by God, they will be ruled by tyrants." -- William Penn
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -- Sir Francis Bacon
The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution.
It's not the arrows, its the Indians.
"If you don't understand weapons, you can't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting, you can't understand war. If you don't understand war, you can't understand history. If you don't understand history, you might as well have your head in a sack." -- Jeff Cooper
Integrity is being good even if no one is watching.
"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom." -- Patrick Henry
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 13 Nov. 1787, referring to Daniel Shays's rebellion of poor farmers in Massachusetts
"Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn."
"Molon labe" (Come and get them.) Response of Leonidas, King of the Spartans, to Xerxes' demand at Thermopylae that the Spartans surrender their arms.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. - Winston Churchill.
"A golf course is a sad misuse of a perfectly good rifle range."
"Unlike war, peace can not be won. It must be fought for one day at a time. And, the same goes for freedom." - Sir David Frost
"In a gunfight, you will not rise to the occasion; you will descend to the level of your training." - Hershel Davis
"You never make yourself look smart by making someone else look stupid." - Ruth Blenski
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon
"What luck for the rulers than men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
A day without sunshine is like, night.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson
On the other hand - you have different fingers.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
"Who can surprise well must conquer." - John Paul Jones
"We will either find a way or make one. - Hannibal
"Battles are fought by platoons and squads. Place emphasis on small unit combat instruction so that it is conducted with the same precision as close-order drill." - Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
"The deadliest weapon on the battlefield remains the individual soldier armed with a weapon he knows how to use." - John F. Antal
"Find the enemy and shoot him down; anything else is nonsense." - Capt. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
If we go forward we die. If we go back we die. It is better to go forward. - Ancient Zulu motto
"When the situation is obscure, attack." - Gen. Heinz Guderian
"The power to tax is the power to destroy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier or not having been at sea. The profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverence those who have gotten over fear, which is so general a weakness." - Samuel Johnson, 1778
Post Shooting Trauma--your reaction to society's reaction to your having shot someone.
Do not wish for tasks to equal your strength. Instead wish for strength equal to your tasks.
"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about... The Bible...is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture." - President Woodrow Wilson
"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, 1857
"Whoever lays a hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant, and I declare him my enemy" - P.J. Proudhon
"Good books--comfort for the soul and ammunition for the mind." -- Brad Gray