Sayings
Issue #34 Posted September 5, 2004

America - Land of the Free, Because of the Brave.

"Small minds are the most dangerous for they are literal and incapable of independent judgment." -- Joe Ames

"Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger, but in being prompt to confront and disarm it." -- Sir Walter Scott

"Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." -- Robert E. Lee

"Better faithful than famous. Honor before prominence." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." -- Thomas Paine

"To expect bad people not to do wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility. But to allow people to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational and tyrannical." -- Marcus Aurelius

"Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment." -- Ronald Reagan, Oct. 27, 1964

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"If we desire to insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War." -- George Washington

"You only have to be smarter than what you are working on or with" -- P. E. Sokolowski

"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens." -- George Mason

"They [the Bill of Rights] are as clear as the Ten Commandments.... Herein are the sentinels which guard the doors of every home from invasion of coercion, intimidation and fear. Herein is the expression of the spirit of men who would forever be free." -- Herbert Hoover

"In much of Western life religion has descended into simply making people feel good. At its best, however, religion teaches what is ultimately important and what isn't. Neither a good nor a happy life is possible without knowing that." -- Dennis Prager

"What comes out of a microphone, television, film or video depends on what's put into it. What emerges from a child depends on what goes in. We can drum in virtue, wisdom, love and attention and expect the same in return, or we can expect violence, despair, suicide and alienation when we abandon, ignore and corrupt our youth." -- Cal Thomas

"The stake in personal defense is your life. You cannot afford to play by sporting rules. Be fast, not fair. Be "offside" on the play. No referee will call it back." -- Jeff Cooper, 1972

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." -- George Washington

Recall the admonition given to rookie officers: They are advised to take out a dollar bill and look at the reverse side. To the right is a symbol of the American Eagle with an olive branch in one talon and a bundle of arrows in the other. "Offer each you meet Peace, but have a plan to kill them."

"Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may best be discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." -- Plutarch

"Cujus ingenium et candorem ex ipsius scriptis sunt olim semper miraturi." (Whose candor and genius will to the end of time be by his writings preserved in admiration.) -- Thuanus

In this world, there are people who need to be shot dead, not negotiated with or have the error of their ways pointed out to them, but spontaneously shot to death, and the sooner the better. This is a frightful fact that even army generals don't want to face or think about.

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Lets start with typewriters." -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

In America; anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." -- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses." -- George Santayana (1863-1952)

"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Potes currere sed solum morieris fatigatus." (You can run, but you'll only die tired.)  The motto of the gunships of SPECTRE

"Some people prey upon other people. Whether we like it or not, this is one of the facts of life. It has always been so and it is not going to change." -- Jeff Cooper

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -- John Wayne as J.B. Books, The Shootist - 1976

"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny." -- Aristotle

"When its time to shoot, SHOOT, don't talk!" - Tuco the Ugly, in the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one *makes* them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on the guilt." -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

"Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic, but will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact." -- George Eliot

"Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." -- Max Lerner

"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object." -- James Madison

The rifle and pistol are just tools. I am the weapon." -- unknown

"My disagreement with the peace-at-any-price men, the ultrapacifists, is not in the least because they favor peace. I object to them, first, because they have proved themselves futile and impotent in working for peace, and second, because they commit what is not merely the capital error but the crime against morality of failing to uphold righteousness as the all-important end toward which we should strive ... I have as little sympathy for them as they have for the men who deify mere brutal force, who insist that power justifies wrongdoing, and who declare that there is no such thing as international morality. But the ultra-pacifists really play into the hands of these men. To condemn equally might which backs right and might which overthrows right is to render positive service to wrong-doers ... To denounce the nation that wages war in self-defense, or from a generous desire to relieve the oppressed, in the same terms in which we denounce war waged in a spirit of greed or wanton folly stands on a par with denouncing equally a murderer and the policeman who, at peril of his life and by force of arms, arrests the murderer. In each case the denunciation denotes not loftiness of soul but weakness both of mind and morals." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"A Republic must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty...." -- John Witherspoon

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat." -- Woodrow Wilson

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." -- Edmund Burke

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." -- Sir Francis Bacon

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency." --Theodore Roosevelt

"If you think that one person can't make a difference, then why are there statues?" -- Alexander (Sandy) McBean

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