Sayings
Issue #13  posted 2000-03-06

"PACIFIST. Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

Smart guns will never compensate for stupid people.

"Never walk away from your axe and sword. You can't feel a battle in your bones or foresee a fight." -- Attributed to The Sayings of the Vikings

"Give me the man and I will find the crime." -- Marshal Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (1899-1953), Stalin's Minister of Internal Affairs. (Executed for treason, after Stalin's death.)

There are few problems that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosives." from the US Army's demolition school

NOTHING is more satisfying than a true surprise break.

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." -- Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Ludlow, 1824

Those who have been to the mountain, those who have studied with the master, know. Those who have not, cannot understand.

Definitions

1. A Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
2. A Republic: The flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on dinner.
3. A Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed.
4. Federal Government: The means by which the sheep will be fooled into voting for a Democracy.
5. Freedom: Two very hungry wolves looking for dinner and finding a very well-informed and well-armed sheep.

Who is your friend today might not be tomorrow! Those without knowledge about you should not be able to harm you based on that prior knowledge!

Moral: John Browning was an alien sent to improve the status of personal as well as infantry weaponry on this planet. Don't argue with his designs.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrick Nietzsche

"Nothing that is morally wrong can ever be politically right." -- Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Mei-ling Soong)

"We are born too late with too little and what heritage remains is being ‘de-constructed." -- Bill Adkins

You can't miss fast enough to win the gunfight.

"No man's liberty or treasure is secure when the Senate is in session." -- Cicero

"A Liberal is someone who changes the rules so that the sideline becomes the goal-line." -- Garrison Keelior

"Love is what goes on between a man and a .45 that doesn't jam." -- Alan Ladd

Rule for operating in bear country

1) Be alert.
2) Take bears seriously. The are not pets.
3) Never be out of reach of a powerful firearm or alternately, out of sight of someone who is adequately armed.
4) Do not camp or sleep astride a bear thoroughfare, and set up your camp with the understanding that a bear may show up in the dark.
5) Be alert.

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered." -- Thomas Paine

"I'm a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up." (Seen on a t-shirt)

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future." -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four

"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice, and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty--and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H. L. Mencken, 1923

"Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation are men who want the crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. ... Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. ... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose." -- Fredrick Douglas

"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- attr. George Orwell

Veteran's Day--A day when we remember those of us who were, or are still, a sword against the darkness.

 "There are two types of people; those who want you to do something that you don't want to do, and all others.

Liberalism is a disease.

Political Correctness deprives a nation of individual thought and action.

"Hope is not a course of action, nor a method of execution...if you rely on it, you'll probably wind up getting yourself killed" -- US Army Ranger instructor, class 3-77

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready." -- Theodore Roosevelt, San Francisco, CA, May 13, 1903

BARLEY - "Which any fool can eat, but for which the good Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give thanks and praise His bounty by brewing beer." -- attr. Friar Tuck, 1196 A.D.

"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins" -- Heywood Brown, Pieces of Hate

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain


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