"The one who fights back retains his dignity……" — Jeff Cooper
"The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect."
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82 Quotes by Jeff Cooper
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- An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
- That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They…
- The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push…
- One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
- Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the…
- Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.
- The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when…
- A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.
- I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the…
- One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed…
- We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth…
- I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control…