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- An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
- One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in…
- We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of…
- The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral…
- Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.
- Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having…
- If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and…
- If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil…
- In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.
- A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
- The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle