Sayings
Issue #61 Posted September '09

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." -- Alexander Pope

"Life's tough - it's even tougher if you're stupid."-- John Wayne

"No one should die because they cannot afford health care, unless they  can't afford health care because they spent their money on drugs, booze, cigarettes, pets, illegitimate children, scratch-off lottery tickets, over-sized rims, iPhones, hair extensions, designer jeans, pay-per-view wrestling."

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." -- Sally Kempton

"There are certain things that are true no matter how much someone may deny them. In the economic realm, for instance, you cannot legislate the poor into independence by legislating the wealthy out of it. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give to people what it does not first take away from people. And that which one man received without working for, another man must work for without receiving." -- Kenneth W. Sollitt

"Why shouldn't you pick a fight with an old man? Answer: Well he may not want to fight or be to slow, tired or not hit as hard as he used to. HE'LL JUST KILL YOU!"

"When you point a finger, look where the other three are pointing." - Unknown

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." -- Ethel Barrymore

"In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where we can see them." - Unknown

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class . . . save Congress." -- Mark Twain

"For those who are in sovereign control of arms are in a sovereign position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not." Aristotle, The Politics page 416, Penguin Books, revised edition 1981

"Since 1994, 1,597 of the 130,000 police officers in "gun free" South Africa have been killed in the line of duty. By contrast, New York City lost 3 of its 41,000 officers last year, all due to car accidents." — America's First Freedom, July 2001, P.26

"On the whole, citizens are more successful gun users than are the police. When police shoot, they are 5.5 times more likely to hit an innocent person than are civilian shooters." — David Kopel, Trust The People: The Case Against Gun Control, CATO Institute Policy Analysis No. 109

"Liberalizing concealed carry laws won't lead to a return to the Wild West - though it wouldn't be bad if it did. ... in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capita robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown." — David Kopel, "Have Gun, Will Eat Out", Wall Street Journal, 28 Feb 1994

"The maintenance of civil order and social democracy is in our hands. It has been there all along. In a nationwide study, Don Kates at the St. Louis University School of Law found that police succeed in wounding or driving off criminals only 81% as often as armed citizens and are 15% more likely to be wounded or killed themselves. More than FIVE TIMES as many cops shoot some innocent individual in the process as civilians do." — L. Neil Smith, The Atrocity Engineers

"Research has shown that every year, more than 2.4 million people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals. Of these, more than 192,000 are women defending themselves against sexual assaults. Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives." — America's First Freedom, April 2001, page 24

"Cigarette lighters cause more fatal accidents for children than do guns. In 1984, the number of accidental deaths from all types of guns for children under the age of 5 was 34, while that same year 90 children aged 0-4 were killed by cigarette lighters." — Centers for Disease Control, Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report, March 11, 1988, p. 145; Consumer's Research, May 1988, p. 34.

"Gun-control means hitting the target. Crime-control means identifying, arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning (or, when appropriate executing) [criminals] with due process of law." — Tom Clancy, quoted on the Usenet discussion group alt.books.tom-clancy

"Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun. The same situation exists in Israel, whose armed forces are similar to the Swiss model. Many citizens keep their military weapons--the well known Uzi submachine gun, for example--in their coat closets." — Tom Clancy

" The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." — James Earl Jones

"Of those men who have overturned the liberty of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants." -- Alexander Hamilton

"Obama reads the Constitution for the same reason Clinton reads the Bible -- They're looking for loopholes." -- annon

"Your handgun is something you can use to fight your way to your rifle, which you should not have left in the first place." -- Clint Smith

"The first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun but If I know I'm going to a fight, I'm taking a rifle." -- Unknown

"The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy... If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." — Edward Abbey

"To this day, it is 1999, isn't the male primarily responsible for the physical defense of the American home? If you hear a creak on the floor downstairs in the middle of the night, the woman never says, 'Let me check.' You have to check. And you're supposed to go downstairs and confront whoever's down there with Plan B, whatever it happens to be, 'My good man, please give me that firearm and leave the premises'? I mean, give me a break! The reason men are more pro-gun is because they are responsible for the physical protection of the American home." — Chris Matthews, host of CNBC's Hardball

"He who goes unarmed in paradise had better be sure that is where he is." — James Thurber

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." — Sigmond Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving." — Bill McIntire, Spokesman for the National Rifle Association

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." — Solomon Short

"We learn from Soldier of Fortune magazine that when Senator Arlen Specter issued a request last summer for the names of all known militia members at least one citizen did what he could do to help. He sent Specter a copy of the local phone book. According to the Founding Fathers, almost everybody not in the military is in the militia." — Jeff Cooper

"A gun is no more responsible for killing people than a spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat." — Travis McGee

"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness." -- Samuel Adams

"Thin the Herd.... Front Sight, Press, Front Sight, Press" -- Hershel Davis

Let me now... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party generally... A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." -- George Washington

"Do not ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -- Napoleon

"The difference between republic and empire might be restated as the difference between taking the girl next door to the Sadie Hawkins Dance and paying a Saigon whore in chocolate bars and the Yankee dollar. -- Unk

"Work as if you were to live 100 Years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." -- John Stuart Mill

We need to stop using the term 'gun control.' Call it what it is, 'victim disarmament.' The term gun control just plays into the hands the of the anti-gun crowd the same way our acceptance of the term 'assault weapon' has. Can anyone define exactly what an assault weapon is?

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." -- James Madison

"But within the willingness to die for family and home, something inside us longs for someone to die beside. Someone to lock step with, another man with a heart like our own." -- US Navy SEAL Matthew G. Axelson

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