"No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of the government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government." - Woodrow Wilson
"Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The Constitution of the United States was designed for a moral and religious people and is inadequate for the government of any other kind." - John Adams
"Those who expect to rear the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat" - Theodore Roosevelt
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." - Daniel Webster
"You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights." - William Lloyd Garrison
A skillful leader does not use force.
A skillful fighter does not feel anger.
A skillful master does not engage the opponent.
A skillful employer remains low.
Those who know others are intelligent.
Those who know themselves have insight.
Those who master others have force.
Those who master themselves have strength.
Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the
target.
This precept we must emphasize as well as we are able.
If you think that we are kidding or we just need you to bark at,
A leg shot isn't funny on the operating table.
"Voting and owning a gun are both constitutional rights, but both require intelligent usage; only a fool uses either without thinking or caring." - Sen. H.L. Richardson
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
`Firepower' usually means an increased number of misses per minute. Fifty misses is not firepower. One hit is firepower.
Gun control is hitting your target..
"There are no such things as dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men." - Robert Heinlein, Methuselah
"Only an armed man can have political rights." - Old Swiss tradition.
Neither a bowler nor a slapper be, for wasted motion is thine enemy.
"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." - Robert Heinlein
"The old lesson has been taught again that danger and challenge come from unexpected quarters and, in the last resort, there is nobody to rely on but one's self." - Anthony Lejeune
"The law in curbing crime, is about as useful as the United Nations, in curbing aggression." - William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Let us live in such a manner that upon our death it may be truly said, `He did not waste his brain.' " - Jeff Cooper
6/9/97 Fr. Frog