[S]he had never believed in fighting fair. Either you fought, or you did not, and it was never a game. Fairness was for people standing safely to one side, talking while others bled. Robert Jordan
Cadsuane, Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of Time
UNTIL WE CAN BAN ALL OF THEM, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL …
UNTIL WE CAN BAN ALL OF THEM, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL BAN NONE. U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, Democrat, Senate Hearings 1993Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some …
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. ‘What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.’ Daniel Webster
Speech at Marshfield, Sept. 1, 1848. P. 433. 1782-1852
You murder someone, you aren’t going to have the chance to …
You murder someone, you aren’t going to have the chance to do it again. Dorothy E. Riley
1980
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. …
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reasonof the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessonsof wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Phyllis Bottome
1884-1963, Novelist and Lecturer
Don’t steal. The government hates competition. Unknown …
Don’t steal. The government hates competition.
Unknown
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money …
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most …
We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man. James Madison
Speech at the Constitutional Convention, June 6, 1787(1751-1836)
Governors should be well principled. L’Estrange …
Governors should be well principled.
L’Estrange