Category: Quote O’ The Day

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
– Ludwig von Mises

“Violent crime is a solved problem – all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.”
— L. Neil Smith

“What have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” -Elizabeth Willing Powel

“A republic,…….if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
– Thomas Sowell

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— H.L. Mencken

When you disarm your subjects, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
— Niccolo Machiavelli

If we lower our standards, we lower the flag. — President Ronald Reagan

Don’t make the mistake of confusing “fear” and “panic”. Fear is good. Fear is necessary. Fear is what stimulates the adrenal glands and the pituitary gland into releasing that stuff that turns us from squishy hairless office apes into nightmares that bodied saber toothed cats, cave bears, and lifts cars off of humans
– Lawdog

Every little thing matters all the time. Check and re-check yourself and your buddy. If it is wrong correct it, if it is marginal it is not good enough.

Hold yourself and your Ranger Buddy to the highest standards.

Do things right and pay attention to detail so often that it becomes a habit (wearing eye-pro, muzzle awareness, not driving faster than you can see…).
Doing the right thing is habit forming and saves pain and grief in the long run.

Someone once told me Rangers learn through pain; I’d rather we learn from being taught the correct way of doing things, enforcing our own standards (on-the-spot corrections) and following our own SOPs.

Once the little things and basics are down cold, they become habits that you live by all the time whether in combat or training.
This allows you to move to higher levels of proficiency in combat skills.
-Ranger Regiment Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Alfred Birch

“What a glorious morning for America!”
Samuel Adams, on hearing the gunfire of the battle at Lexington, 1775

“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
John Parker, Captain of the Lexington Militia, to his company facing British troops on Lexington Common Green.

Many claim that only government can say what is and isn’t a right, largely so they can justify stripping people of their natural rights, and invent new rights that have no moral or logical basis.
It’s by this claim that they seek to destitute perceived enemies to subjugation, while those enemies serve the preferred classes.
It’s the immoral basis for all authoritarianism, totalitarianism, slavery, communism and fascism.
-Jeff Shetler

“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet’s development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg ’s invention of the printing press.”
— L. Neil Smith

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
– Crystal Eastman

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
– H. L. Mencken

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
—Larry Elder

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
-Walter Williams