The right to bear arms is a promise that freedom will never be surrendered quietly.
Category: Quote O’ The Day
25 years.
A quarter of a century.
Relative timeframe;
December 7th 1966 to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. — George W. Bush
In a series of coordinated attacks, moslem Al Qaeda terrorists hijack 4 passenger jet aircraft and use them to crash into towers 1 & 2 of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon, killing 2,977 people. The passengers of the 4th jet, United Airlines Flight 93, attempt to retake it from the hijackers, and succeed in keeping the hijackers from completing their mission to crash it into the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., who instead crash it in Pennsylvania.
By the way, anyone on a jury who convicts someone for destroying a flock camera is a communist. – unattributed
Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.
– James Burgh
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
-Thomas Sowell
To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it. — J. Norman Collie
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
– Helen Keller
[The only ‘security’ I’m sure of is proclaimed in scripture]
Knowing danger can occur anywhere, at any time, puts you ahead of most people. This doesn’t mean you’re paranoid. It simply means you’re aware — and take precautions. – Tiger McKee.
Just to reiterate:
You don’t get to pick the day you need your gun. Someone else will pick that day, and they will only tell you at the last minute. -Tom Givens
And to put a sharp point to it:
Matt Graham Combat Killhouse rules:
1. NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU.
2. EVERYTHING IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
3. SAVE WHO NEEDS TO BE SAVED.
4. KILL WHO NEEDS TO BE KILLED.
5. ALWAYS BE WORKING.
“Of course, I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door, the bringer will find me home”
– James A. Garfield.
“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most essential one to every free people and should not be whittled down by technical constructions.
– State vs. Kerner, 181 N.C. 574, 107 S.E. 222, at 224 (1921)
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
–James Madison
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
“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State.
–Alexander Hamilton
“The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.”
— Thomas Sowell
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
-Thomas Jefferson
The Left considers the fight over free speech to be a political death struggle, and they are right about that. If anything deserves to be strangled in its crib it is the Left’s current assault on the First Amendment.
–Thomas DiLorenzo
“Your understanding and consent are not required for someone to take your life, kill your loved ones, and destroy all you hold dear.”
– Dr William Aprill
Carry your tools.
Mind your surroundings.
Respond accordingly.