Category: Quote O’ The Day

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

“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

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

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

For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution.
[Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822)]

Once you realize that none of them [liberals] understand what they are discussing, it all makes sense. You are debating 1st graders about astrophysics. They have no understanding of any topic.
-Kirk Freeman

Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anyone has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.
-Alexander Hope

“Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon – rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything – any time, any place, without asking anyone’s permission.”
— L. Neil Smith