Sayings
Issue #10 posted
1999-06-20
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." -- Theodore Roosevelt
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est" (A sword is not the killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.) - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from great hearts." -- Theodore Roosevelt
If you can't solve the problem with five rounds of buckshot, chances are the problem will solve you.
"Are these morons getting dumber or just louder?" - Diamond Joe Quimby
"Rascality has limits; stupidity has not." -- Napoleon
Every time you make something idiot proof, someone else makes a better idiot.
In the real world there are only two rules to gun fighting
that matter:
1. Have a gun.
2 Win
"Get there the fastest with the mostest" - Nathan Bedford Forrest
"Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. All else is twaddle." - Admiral "Jackie" Fisher (father of HMS Dreadnought)
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." - Bernard Baruch
"Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character." - Laura Schlessinger
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through." -- F. W. Nichol
Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice!
"Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking." -- Theodore Roosevelt.
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight." - Theodore Roosevelt
A coward is always in danger. - Portuguese proverb
"A man who is not trusting is not to be trusted." - Larry Leveron
""We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - George Orwell." - George Orwell
Qui Desidererat Pacem Praeparet Bellum. (If you want peace, prepare for war.) - Old Latin saying
"It pays to shoot straight, straight shooters always win." - Art Blenski
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear. Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety." - H.L. Mencken
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964
"The new leadership is in sacrifice, is in self-denial. It is in love, it is in fearlessness. It is in humility and it is in the perfectly disciplined will. This is also the distinction between great and little men." - Vince Lombardi
"When the buffalo are gone, we will hunt mice, for we are hunters and we want our freedom" - Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull
"T-Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt" - Dr. Allen Grant in the movie "Jurassic Park"
"The state is what it is because the citizens are what they are. We may not expect better states until we have better men." - Plato
"Kill the snake or he will turn and bite you." - Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, 500 B.C.
"Hit quickly, hit hard and keep on hitting. Give the enemy no opportunity to consolidate his forces and hit back at you." - Gen. Holland Smith, USMC
"The experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered." - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
Rapidity is the essence of war. Take advantage of your enemys unreadiness. - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
The officers and men who permit themselves to be surprised deserve to die, and the commanding general will spare no effort to secure them their deserts. - Gen. D.H. Hill, C.S.A.
Surprise makes it possible to take the enemy unawares, to cause panic in the ranks, to paralyze his will to resist, to drastically reduce his fighting efficiency. - Gen. V.G. Reznichenko
The first rule of street survival -- have a gun.
If you look like food, you will be eaten.
"If you are a second late in judging a mans intentions, you will be on your way to Boot Hill." - W.B. "Bat" Masterson
"There is nothing wrong with winning. There is a great deal wrong with losing. Those who bear arms should bear that in mind." - Jeff Cooper, "The Combat Mind-Set"
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag who allows the protesters to burn the flag." - Father Denis Edward OBrien, U.S. Marine Corps
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion." - Dean Inge -
"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph." - Robert E. Howard -
"Speed is fine, but accuracy is final." - Wyatt Earp -
"The word "politics" is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman -
"No one is completely worthless... they can always serve as a bad example!" - author unknown
"The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay
To be Politically Correct is to be Morally Bankrupt, and totally lacking in courage.
"I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men's loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them, not they him." -- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Those who beat their swords into plow shares will plow for those who don't.
"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." -- Henry St. George Tucker, in Blackstone's 1768 Commentaries on the Laws of England.
A cobra is still a cobra whether or not you call him "Mister Cobra."