Sayings Archive
(Issue #4 posted 1/7/98)

 

"Personal arms are to be taken away from men who are not capable, or neglectful, of their care." - Article 93, The Constitution of the Helvetian Confederation, Switzerland

". . . no free man shall be debarred the use of arms within his own land." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution of 1776

"The great object is that every man be armed . . . everyone who is able may have a gun." - Patrick Henry

". . . the ultimate authority . . . resides in the people alone . . . (due to) the advantage of being armed which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." - James Madison, Federalist Papers

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself . . . they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." - attributed to George Washington

True joy is the company of properly raised children.

The most pervasive and least condemned form of dishonesty is not doing the best you can.

"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." - Second Amendment (Bill of Rights), US Constitution

If God believed in permissiveness he would have given us the "Ten Suggestions."

"The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms." - Patton

"To keep and bear arms" means "to own and carry guns."

"In all happiness there is pleasure, but pleasure is the least of happiness." - José Ortega y Gasset

"A good plan executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - Patton

Traveling unarmed is like boating without a lifejacket.

"Books are windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows. No man has the right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to pay for them." - Henry Ward Beecher

The gun is to crime as the camera is to pornography.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"Let him who doubts the existence of God observe the workings of government, and then ponder the fact that mankind survives and prospers." - James R. Dyer

"Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours." -Robert Ardrey

"Never do your enemy a small injury." - Clausewitz

A monarchy is that form of government in which you are free to cheat anybody except the king. An aristocracy is that form of government in which you are free to cheat anybody except the nobility. Democracy is that form of government in which you are free to cheat anybody.

Everyone has a right to their opinion, but some opinions are garbage.

The ability to cope with the unforeseen is the measure of a man.

"We loved a great many things—birds and trees and books and all things beautiful, and horses and rifles and children, and hard work and joy of life." - Theodore Roosevelt, Letters to his Children

A sinner can reform, but stupidity is permanent

Liberty and Responsibility go hand in hand.

A liberal is a man who carries a .357 or smaller.

"Courage is the product self-confidence and habit." - Patton

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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson

"Tis more worthy to rate B+ in ten different areas of endeavor than A+ in just one. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein

Never enter a battle of wits unarmed.

Moderation in all things is an excellent principle. Just don't overdo it.

Don't tell people your troubles. Half don't care, and the other half think you had it coming.

In a melting pot the scum rises to the top.

If you don't have a gun, do not come to a gun fight.

Control government, not guns.

The only dignified and effective response to extortion is violence.

I would like to take you seriously, but that would be to affront your intelligence.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

The timid are not philosophically qualified to comment on the activities of the courageous.

"Remember the government that has the power to give you all you want, also has the power to take all you have." - Col. David Crockett

Walk away backward froma smiling official.

"I hate liberals. They are not nice people with bad ideas. They are bad people with evil ideas." - J.F.A. Davidson, The Resister, "vIII#4 p.5

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Only a fool confuses preparedness with paranoia.

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." - Ralph W. Sockman

"The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them." - John Wayne, Sands of Iwo Jima

When everyone is out to get you, paranoia is adaptive.

"If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want for bread." - Thomas Jefferson

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin

"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire." - - David Rains Wallace

"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord has intended a more divine form of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to His bounty by learning about BEER." - - Friar Tuck, Roobin Hood (1991)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

Those who live by the sword will be shot by those who do not.

"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

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis (1952)

I am the weapon. The gun is only a tool.

"Those who behave with valor overcome fear and do what must be done. Those who let fear dictate their actions, fail and behave with cowardice, or become victims." - Anon

"If there were a nation of gods they would be governed democratically, but so perfect a government is not suitable to men." - - C.L. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, VIII

"Democracy has two excesses to be wary of: the spirit of inequality, which leads it to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads it to despotism." - J.-J. Rousseau, Du contrat social, III, (1762)

"Four boxes: Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo. Use in that order" - Author unknown.

The pen is mightier than the sword...except in a swordfight.

"Act as free men, but do not let your freedom be a cover for evil." - Apostle Peter to churches in the Mediterranean (1 Peter 2:16, NIV)


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