Category: Quote of the Week

"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

“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people’s freedom and security.” – William F. Buckley, Jr.

"One of these days, one of these (rogue) governments fabricates one or two nuclear weapons, and gives them to a terrorist group…The group brings one of these bombs into Baltimore by boat, and drives another one up to Pittsburgh. And then the message comes into the White House. Adjust your policy in the Middle East, or on Tuesday you lose Baltimore, and on Wednesday you lose Pittsburgh. Tuesday comes and we lose Baltimore. What does the U.S. do?" – Ambassador Robert Galucci, Former U.S. Arms Negotiator, Dean of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

“At the end of the 17th century, Marshal Vauban, a French military engineer, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare without fundamentally altering it: ditches would be dug; walls would be protected by glacis; and bastions would enfilade an attacker. He was also a master of planning sieges themselves. Before Vauban, sieges had been somewhat slapdash operations. Vauban refined besieging to a science with a methodical process that, if uninterrupted, would break even the strongest fortifications. Examples of Vauban-style fortresses in North America include Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, Fort Ticonderoga in New York State, and La Citadelle …