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
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The root of a free government is its respect for individual rights.
The root of a free government is its respect for individual rights. Ayn Rand
Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.
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
“[If] freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington
“[If] freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington
Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the …
Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.
Westbrook v. Mihaly, 2 C3d 756
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. Zsa …
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Most Americans understood that dissent does not make one unpatriotic, and that …
Most Americans understood that dissent does not make one unpatriotic, and that there is nothing smart or sophisticated about a cynical disregard for America’s traditions and institutions. Barack Obama
Independence, MO, June 30, 2008
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his …
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
Author of The Origin of Species (on Evolution) 1809-1882
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept …
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he’s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he’s evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil? Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
An armed society is a polite society. Robert A. Heinlein Author (1907-…
An armed society is a polite society.
Robert A. Heinlein
Author (1907-1988) (perhaps his most notable book is Stranger in a Strange Land)