Sayings
Issue #22 Posted February 21, 2002
"There is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of Western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the US. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defense of Western countries." - George Orwell (in 1945), quoted in a letter to The Spectator
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redman
"Ignorance is Curable; Idiocy is Chronic" – Rob De Witt
"The tools of discipline--arms, laws, and religion-- are common to all well-constituted states, and if any of the three is lacking or enfeebled, the survival of the state is mortally threatened." -- "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership" by Michael. A. LeDeen
"Man is attracted to weapons (not just guns, as they are a relatively recent invention), because the mere possession of them is the ultimate expression of individual power, personal responsibility, and the freedom to choose one's future." -- Gabe Suarez, 1998
"You can lead a fool to wisdom, you cannot make him think." -- Jeff Cooper
"I believe a self-righteous liberal Democrat with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude." -- Ted Nugent
"The meek shall inherit the earth...in two by six foot plots." -- Robert Heinlein
"Knightliness and gentlemanliness flourish when women hold men to high standards, expecting them to be magnanimous, gallant, civilized, and chaste." -- "Chivalry Scorned Is Love Denatured" New Oxford Review, Oct. 2000
"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Death comes with a crawl
Or comes with a pounce,
And whether he’s slow or spry,
It’s not the fact that you’re dead that counts,
But only-How did you die?" -- Edmund Vance Cooke
"There were too many cell phones on that airplane and not enough pistols." -- Payton Miller, Executive Editor of Guns & Ammo regarding Flt 93 on 9/11/01
"Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the law" because the law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson
If you are having trouble keeping your head above water, drop the rock.
Life is like a painting, your deeds are like brushstrokes, each brushstroke forms the final picture.
You cannot trample on innocent people and not expect retaliation.
Rules for being Human
1.You will learn lessons.
2. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
3. A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
4. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder (pain is one way the
universe gets your attention).
5. You will know you have learned a lesson when your actions change.
"In harsh or melancholy epochs, free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years which seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present, to have done great things together, to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people." -- Ernest Renan
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference to this world ... the Marines don't have that problem." -- President Ronald Reagan.
"No man's opinion is any better than his background, his experience, and his general common sense." -- Jack O'Conner
"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -- Thucydides
"The purpose of government is to employ government employees." -- Jerry Pournelle
"We've got what it takes to take what you've got." -- The liberal’s credo
"There is no end to the good that can be done with other people's money." – The liberal’s other credo
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