QUOTES

This page contains some great quotes (and some not!). Some true and some... err, well... maybe with a pinch of salt!

In combat, only the result counts.

Doing it better, does NOT mean "with a bigger hammer"!

Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown.

~ Bob Levey

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...
They can't get away this time"

- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine"

- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."

- General George Patton Jr

The most descriptive flag in American history, the symbol Benjamin Franklin felt was the most appropriate for the revolution when he wrote, "She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage... she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her."

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

  ~ Clint Eastwood 

"The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms.  The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings."   

                                        Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dictator of Japan, 1588.

"Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand grenades are inherently democratic weapons.  A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak."   

                                        George Orwell "You and the Atom Bomb" 1945.

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

--Clint Eastwood

"When it comes to freedom, you either wear the uniform or write a check to support those who do, because freedom is not free!"

"This is the law: There is no possible victory in defense,
The sword is more important than the shield,
And skill is more important than either,
The final weapon is the brain.
All else is supplemental."         - John Steinbeck

Denial kills you twice: once because you are physically unprepared at the moment of truth and might die in the incident; twice because you are psychologically unprepared and, even if you physically survive, you are likely to be a psychiatric casualty when your "house of cards" collapses. 

Denial kills you twice, and it can kill your loved ones twice.
In the same way, preparation saves you twice, and it may save your loved ones twice.

Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how a strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, "The Man in the Arena" (Paris, Sorbonne, 1910)

A true warrior does not seek war, nor does he wish to do battle.
He merely believes that it is honorable to cling to a worthy cause.
It is noble to reach out to those who are weaker than himself and
It is valiant to believe that many things are worth giving up everything for. 

- Phil Messina

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." 

- Albert Einstein

Wisdom from Zimbabwe... "When two elephants clash - it's only the grass that suffers"

One Liners:

Rules of Engagement:

Top 10 ways that handguns are better than women...

#10 - You can trade an old .44 for two new .22's.

#9 - You can keep one handgun at home, and have another for when you're on the road.

#8 - If you admire a friend's handgun, and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times.

#7 - Your primary handgun doesn't mind if you keep another handgun for a back up.

#6 - Your handgun will stay with you even if you run out of ammo.

#5 - A handgun doesn't take up a lot of closet space.

#4 - Handguns function normally every day of the month.

#3 - A handgun doesn't ask, "Do these new grips make me look fat?"

#2 - A handgun doesn't mind if you go to sleep after you used it.

And the #1 way a handgun is better than a woman:

#1 - You can buy a silencer for a handgun

And the resemblance between handguns and men...

Size DOES matter...

John Steinbeck also said:

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 cause 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!!!

I was once asked by a lady visiting if I had a gun in the house. I said I did. She said 'Well I certainly hope it isn't loaded!' To which I said, of course it is loaded, can't work without bullets!' She then asked, 'Are you that afraid of some one evil coming into your house?' My reply was, 'No not at all. I am not afraid of the house catching fire either, but I have fire extinguishers around, and they are all loaded too.' To which I'll add, having a gun in the house that isn't loaded is like having a car in the garage without gas in the tank.

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