“A retreat is a place you go to live, not to die. Setting up a a retreat is, for the most part, practicing the art of the possible. It’s a matter of wisely and shrewdly identifying what you have and turning it into something usable… Fight if you must, but try your utmost to orchestrate events so that confrontation is absolutely the remedy of last resort.” – Ragnar Benson
“Do the math. The FAL is a battle rifle, not a target rifle. Don’t try to make a dental pick out of a axe.” – T. Mark Graham, The Gunplumber (proprietor of Arizona Response Systems), posted at The FALFiles Forums
“Whenever good negotiates with evil, evil wins” – Rush Limbaugh (In an opinion piece aired on CBS evening news in its first week anchored by Katie Couric)
"Expensive is when the product is not worth the money." – Karl Welcher, Leica of Germany
“A shotgun can double as a club, but a club cannot double as a shotgun. – Mad Dog’s first Axiom of Combat Utility
“Very few in history, the ranks of which include George Washington and Ronald Reagan, have held a disdain and suspicion of government, and not changed that viewpoint once they themselves were a part of it.” – Rourke
"There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right." – Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC)
The following quote is in honor of the anniversary of the battle at Fort McHenry, on September 12, 1814. Please direct your attention, in particular, to the third and fourth stanzas, which are usually omitted in modern performances. (My apologies to our British cousins who might take offense at the third stanza.) : Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting …
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." – Patrick Henry 1765
“Nature appears fragile but as a whole it is robust and has historically survived the eons; whereas civilization may appear strong but is actually fragile and has historically not survived any great length of time.” – Rourke
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." – Edmund Burke – 1790 – from Reflections on the Revolution in France
“It’s going to get worse before it gets lots worse.” – Lily Tomlin
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” -Winston Churchill
“Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean That They’re Not Out To Get You ” – Sign posted in the orderly room of the 519th ASA Company
“Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.” – The Late Steve Irwin