Category: Quote of the Week

“Survival of the fittest is a constant. It is what constitutes being “fittest” that varies over time.” – Rourke

"Most civilization is based on cowardice. Its so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame." – Frank Herbert, Dune

“The first indication of an oppressive law is when the law makers exempt themselves from it.” – Rourke

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." – Albert Einstein.

“It is easy to be generous with other people’s time and money.” – Rourke

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." – Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (Texas)

“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” – Bertrand de Jouvenel

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.” – Alexander Hamilton

“Weapons compound man’s power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters – and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.” – Col. Jeff Cooper

"No man in the wrong can stand up against a man in the right who keeps on a-comin." – William "Wild Bill" MacDonald, Captain, Texas Rangers

"Amateurs talk about tactics. Professionals talk about logistics." – Christopher Bellamy

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

"Rags make paper, and paper makes money, Money makes banks, and banks make loans, Loans makes debts, and debts make beggars, and beggars wear rags…" – Paraphrase of an old Dutch proverb, as quoted by a paper-making company in Holland

“The difference between dreams and reality, is inactivity.” – J. Leonard

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." – Patrick Henry, 1778, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention Reference: The Debates of the Several States, Elliot, vol. 3 (45)