Sayings
(Issue #5 posted 1998-04-09)

"All men desire by nature to know." - Aristotle

"He is truly great that is little in himself and that maketh no account of any height of honor." - Thomas Á Kempis

"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short." - Shakespeare, in Othello

"The foolish and dead alone never change their opinions." - James Lowell

The most useful virtue is patience.

"The business of life is to go forward." - Samuel Johnson

"No great man ever thought of himself so." - William Hazlitt

"Tis better to be armed and never need to be than to be unarmed and need to be armed." - Jeff Cooper

"The only gift is a portion of thyself." - Emerson

"Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus

"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue." - Confucius

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worth worrying about." - Plato

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." - Horace

"It is always darkest just before the day dawneth." - Thomas Fuller

"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom." - Horace Greely

"Don't go into bear or buffalo country without a powerful rifle." - Jeff Cooper

"A man who has never been in battle is never sure whether or not he is a man." - Jeff Cooper

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - Alexander Hamilton

Epitaph - "He finally ran completely out of patience."

"All legislation is impertinent and ridiculous unless the public peace can be preserved and the liberty and property of individuals safe from outrage and invasion." - Lord Melbourn, 1830

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse." - Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power

"As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood." - Frederick Russel Burnham

The physical world determines what we can do. The state determines what we may do. God determines what we ought to do.

"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly, and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all." - Justice William O. Douglas

"A man's character may be determined by what he chooses to do when there is no possibility of his being punished for it." - Lord MacCauley

"The vice of capitalism is its unequal sharing of blessings. The virtue of socialism is its equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action." - Goethe


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