Category: Quote of the Week

"It does not do to leave a leave dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." – J.R.R. Tolkien

"Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." – Jean de la Fontaine

"If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership — you are practicing followship." – Margaret Thatcher

“Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it [freedom], knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks…Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now …

"The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized. The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men …

“If you don’t understand weapons you don’t understand fighting. If you don’t understand fighting you don’t understand war. If you don’t understand war you don’t understand history. If you don’t understand history, you might as well live with your head in a sack.” – The Late Col. Jeff Cooper.

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." …

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want, is big enough to take it all away." – Barry Goldwater

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." – General Douglas Macarthur

"You are What you do When it counts." – "The Masao," a character in Armor, by John Steakley

"It is in the nature of government to grow like fungus. The framers of the Constitution set out bottles of bleach and sponges, and left general indications of where the general populace could get more if they wanted. These days, most people are arguing whether they want black mildew or pretty shrooms." – Xander Opal

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." – J.R.R. Tolkien

“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)