Quotes - quite possibly an ongoing list.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than out right exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Calvin and Hobbes
A child is highly creative until he starts to school.
Stanley Czurles
Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Striving for excellence motivates you;
striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker
“Though defensive violence will always be a ’sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.” - St. Augustine
“Dangerous laws created by well intentioned people today can be used by dangerous people with evil intentions tomorrow.” - Alan Eppers
“If householders were required by law to own and know how to use revolvers, burglary would cease. It is an act of good citizenship to make crime dangerous - an encouragement of crime to remain defenseless.” - 1904 Iver Johnson advertisement
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It our job to see that it stays there.” - George Orwell
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." (George Orwell)
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” - Dalai Lama, Tibet
“When the miser prefers his gold to justice, it is through no fault of the gold, but of the man, and so with every created thing.” - Saint Augustine
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
- Albert Einstein
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
- Thomas Jefferson
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.” - Ted Nugent
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
- Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?” - Patrick Henry
“It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and lawful to own a shotgun or a rifle. We believe in obeying the law.” - Malcolm X, March 12, 1964
“Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.” - Walter Mondale, Former Vice President
“There are three reasons to own a gun. To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face.” - Krusty the Clown
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.”
- Patrick Henry
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” - Plato
“arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property…Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.” - Thomas Paine
“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
- George Washington
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- John Eldredge
"I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." - William F. Buckley
Helen Keller
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Calvin and Hobbes
A child is highly creative until he starts to school.
Stanley Czurles
Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Striving for excellence motivates you;
striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker
“Though defensive violence will always be a ’sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.” - St. Augustine
“Dangerous laws created by well intentioned people today can be used by dangerous people with evil intentions tomorrow.” - Alan Eppers
“If householders were required by law to own and know how to use revolvers, burglary would cease. It is an act of good citizenship to make crime dangerous - an encouragement of crime to remain defenseless.” - 1904 Iver Johnson advertisement
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It our job to see that it stays there.” - George Orwell
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." (George Orwell)
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” - Dalai Lama, Tibet
“When the miser prefers his gold to justice, it is through no fault of the gold, but of the man, and so with every created thing.” - Saint Augustine
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
- Albert Einstein
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
- Thomas Jefferson
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.” - Ted Nugent
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
- Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?” - Patrick Henry
“It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and lawful to own a shotgun or a rifle. We believe in obeying the law.” - Malcolm X, March 12, 1964
“Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.” - Walter Mondale, Former Vice President
“There are three reasons to own a gun. To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face.” - Krusty the Clown
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.”
- Patrick Henry
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” - Plato
“arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property…Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.” - Thomas Paine
“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
- George Washington
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- John Eldredge
"I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." - William F. Buckley