"The concept most fundamental to long term disaster preparedness, in retreating, is having a safe place to go to avoid the concentrated violence destined to erupt in the cities. When you have a growing apprehensive awareness that the time grows short for you to relocate away from areas of greatest danger, then choose [where you will live] carefully." – Mel Tappan
"What doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"- Micah 6:8 (Carved in stone at the entrance to Baylor Law School)
“It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I’m readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I’ll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials – after the fact.” – Robert E. Lee, 1863
"Prepared is good. Unprepared is for losers. Know it." – American musician and philosopher Ted Nugent, in a July 2010 essay, Self Evident Nuge.
"These are times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." – Thomas Paine, from his essay “The Crisis”
"All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. " – Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
Smokin’ my pipe on the mountings, sniffin’ the mornin’ cool, I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o’ my old brown mule. The monkey can say what our road was — the wild-goat ‘e knows where we passed. Stand easy, you long-eared old darlin’s! Out drag-ropes! With shrapnel! Hold fast — ‘Tss! ‘Tss! For you all love the screw-guns — the screw-guns they all love you! So when we take tea with a few guns, o’ course you will know what to do — hoo! hoo! Jest send in your Chief an’ surrender — it’s worse if you fights …
"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?" – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves." – Declaration of the Cause and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775
"In every government there necessarily exists a power from which there is no appeal, and which, for that reason, may be formed absolute and uncontrollable. The person or assembly in whom this power resides is called the sovereign or supreme power of the state. With us, the sovereignty of the Union is in the people." – Charles Pinckney, 1788
“This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities’ ability to deal with the adversity.” – Gideon Gono (Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, who helped orchestrate the world’s highest currency inflation rate of 89.7 sextillion percent per year.)
“‘Character’ may be defined as obedience to one’s sense of ought.” – Colonel Jeff Cooper
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." – John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)
“In 1868, our nation made a promise to the McDonald family; they and their descendants would henceforth be American citizens, and with American citizenship came the guarantee enshrined in our Constitution that no State could make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of American citizenship. The rights so guaranteed were not trivial. The Civil War was not fought because States were attacking people on the high seas or blocking access to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The rights secured by the Fourteenth Amendment were understood to include the fundamental rights honored by any free …
Medical Corps is running another Medical Response in Hostile Environments class, October 15-16-17. It is filling rapidly. Don’t miss out on this great training. o o o Reader Rod V. suggested a waterproof memory stick for archiving your most important computer files, such as e-books, and scanned family papers: Corsair Flash Survivor 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive. Rod’s comment: “This may be one of most important items in your Bug-out bag, so don’t be stingy. Get one that’s waterproof, bombproof, and kid-proof.” o o o Jeff M. told me about a good web site with free barn …