The Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. [For men] offering no resistance is 1.4 times more likely to result in serious injury than resisting with a gun.
Wall Street Journal, November 11, 1998
A man in love is incomplete until he has married — then he’s finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it. James A. Donald
Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgments…In short, positive economics is or can be an ‘objective’ science. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006), Essays in Positive Economics (1962), pt. 1, 1.
Credit cards are like guns. You know the saying that guns donÃt kill people, people do? Well credit cards donÃt get people in debt, people get themselves in debt. Credit cards, like guns, are just a tool than needs to be used properly or things will turn bad really fast. Unknown
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
John Adams
Never marry a man who hates his mother because he’ll end up hating you. Jill Bennett
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that’s just one of the risks he takes. Adlai Stevenson
American Diplomat, 1900-1965 (One of various phrasings)
If I think, I value.
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)