Category Archives: Quotations Freedom

Quotations Freedom

1. Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he …

Leave a comment

1. Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.2. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.3. I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.4. When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.5. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him ‘Why do you carry a 45?’ The Ranger responded, ‘Because they don’t make a 46.’6. An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.7. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. ‘Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?’ ‘No Ma’am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.’8. Beware the man who only has one gun. HE PROBABLY KNOWS HOW TO USE IT!!! John Steinbeck
Attributed

First Amendment, Freedom, Quotations Freedom, Second Amendment

Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.

Leave a comment

 Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind. Ayn Rand

“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.

“A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone’s opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or ‘welfare.’ Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. (An example and symbol of this attitude is Galileo.)

“It is from the work and the inviolate integrity of such minds — from the intransigent innovators — that all of mankind’s knowledge and achievements have come. (See The Fountainhead.) It is to such minds that mankind owes its survival. (See Atlas Shrugged.)” — Ayn Rand, “What Is Capitalism?,” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal