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"Better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool"

-Harley Davidson

"Is this a private fight--or can anyone join?"

~Irish bar saying

"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness."
- lo-sci (THR)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature.

They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes....

Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;

they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides,

for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,

nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,

is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own.

Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil,

and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda,

they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

- Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.

I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

- Ronald Reagan

The following phrase:

. . . apparently means that only registered voters are entitled to read books, and then only on-site at the local public library. And only government-owned books.

- from The High Road forum

"It's better to be hated for who you are, than loved for who you're not."

- Van Zant

"But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you,

it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

- Dalai Lama

"Non-violence does not admit of running away from danger.

Between violence and cowardly flight,

I can only prefer violence to cowardice." -

Mahatma Gandhi

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"Art is based on emotional understanding, on the feeling of the unknown which lies behind the visible and the tangible, and on the creative power, the power, that is, to reconstruct in visible or audible forms the artists sensations, feelings, visions and moods, and especially a certain fugitive sensation, which is in fact the feeling of the harmonious interconnection and oneness of everything and the feeling of the "soul" of things and phenomena. Like science and philosophy, art is a definite way of knowledge. The artist, in creating, learns much that he did not know before. But an art which does not reveal mysteries, which does lead to the sphere of the unknown, does not yield new knowledge, is a parody of art, and still more often is not even a parody, but simply a commerce or an industry." 

--P.D. Ouspensky, Philosopher

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"Sometimes you gotta create things you want to be a part of."

- Charlton Heston

"A conclusion is not a destination,

it's simply a convenient place to stop thinking.

Reading a thing doesn't automatically make it so;

repeating it doesn't necessarily make it any truer."

- unknown

"Blaming guns for crime is like Rosie O'Donnell blaming her fork because she's fat"

- Bumper sticker seen on Penn & Teller's BS

"In God we trust, everyone else we shall monitor."

– old nam vet

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who dont"

- Unknown

"Repeated pattern in history of what they burn.

First the peoples' books.

Then the peoples' weapons.

Then the people."

- Anonymous

"The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to America.

So is a right and duty to dissent, to question, and to investigate your government.

Blindly agreeing that 2+2=5 because your party says it is so is not.

Thinkers are citizens. Blind believers are tools."

-Maned Wolf

". . . when I listen to them I get a flash of what the feminists seem to want in every man in America;

soft, observant, oversensitive, politically correct, a good follower, aghast at initiative and tragedy alike.

Thank God the revolutionary members of our early republic knew the pelasure of a good smoke,

a day in the woods, the feel of a fine rifle, the love of a woman, and the true blessing of freedom!
- Sam Tucker, mountain man

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.

A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Though his mind for rent, to any God or Government,

always hopeful yet discontent, he knows change is not permanent."

- Neil Peart of Rush, "Tom Sawyer"

"I find the curiosity of our party is pretty well satisfied with respect to this animal."
Capt. M. Lewis summing up in his journal after several near death experiences with grizzly bears.

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