"Note that mere ownership of a firearm does not render the owner armed any more than ownership of a guitar renders the owner a musician. The wild cry, “My life is in danger, give me a gun!” is the plaint of a fool. The time to acquire one’s weapons and learn how to use them is before the riots start, not afterwards." – Col. Jeff Cooper
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from …
“Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.” – Robert A. Heinlein
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.” – Rudyard Kipling
Dr. Rudi Gunn: “Hold on, how do I cross the border? I never took survival training.” Dirk Pitt: “Consider this your course, Rudi…” Al Giordino (interrupting): “…It’s kind of pass/fail, which I was told is easier.” – from the action-adventure film Sahara (2005)
“A man’s got to know his limitations.” – John Milius Producer/Director of The Wind and The Lion, Red Dawn, and Farewell to the King
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt
Jed: “Pearl, What d’ya think? Think I oughta move?” Cousin Pearl: “Jed, how can ya even ask? Look around ya. Yer eight miles from yer nearest neighbor. Yor overrun with skunks, possums, coyotes, bobcats. Ya use kerosene lamps fer light and ya cook on a wood stove summer and winter. Yer drinkin’ homemade moonshine and washin’ with homemade lye soap. And you ask, ‘Should I move?’” Jed: “I reckon yor right. A man’d be a dang fool to leave all this!” – Buddy Ebsen and Bea Benaderet, in The Beverly Hillbillies
"If you can read this, thank a teacher! If you are reading this in English, thank a Veteran!" – Bumper sticker seen in Great Falls, Montana
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." – Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and twice British Prime Minister
“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” – Steven Wright
"There are very few problems around a ranch that cannot be solved with pallets, bailing twine, an Aught Six, duct tape, a Leatherman Tool, or 80% dynamite." – James Wesley, Rawles
“That’s human nature. Nobody does anything until it’s too late.” – Michael Crichton, Prey
“Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.” – Col. Jeff Cooper