Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Quote of the day–Clayton Cramer

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Osama bin Laden and his fellow jihadis may well have figured out that the only way that they can continue to feel good about their place in the world is by reducing the West to the same level of desperate impoverishment as the Arab world. This also explains the left’s alliance with bin Laden almost from the beginning–they also share this resentment that the West isn’t desperately poor (but not enough to give up their private jets and Ferraris).

Clayton Cramer
September 3, 2006
A Dark Thought as We Approach The Fifth Anniversary of 9/11

Quote of the day–Benjamin Franklin

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We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin
[Gun owners, are you listening? Anti-war activists, are you listening?–Joe]

Quote of the day–Liz Mort

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A gun is a very important part of a farmer’s equipment. There are more illegal guns held within the M25 than the whole of the British Armed Forces.

Getting a gun illegally has never been easier. People who want to use them illegally do not get them registered.

Liz Mort
August 30, 2006
Concern as gun numbers soar in Suffolk
Eastern region spokeswoman for the Countryside Alliance

[See also the Countryside Alliance our shooting campaign. I thought everyone had given up over there. Apparently resistance fighters still exist. I think I see more free Boomershoot entries for U.K. entrants again. This quote brought to you via Phil and Kevin.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Howard Nemerov

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Professor Fox’s maundering is based upon the unproven assumption that more gun control will lead to less violence. He believes that being a university professor entitles him to dictate public policy, and our request for supporting statistics is irrelevant because we are not part of his Ivory Tower clique. He uses his command of the English language to create subtle innuendos to label us gun-fetishists and paranoids, and to imply that we have taken the government hostage like so many terrorists.

It’s easy to lose touch with reality when one gets to live life in a protected enclave with a tenured position from which one can espouse fanciful ideologies without impacting job security. Regardless of the damage inflicted on regular people for implementing his recommendations, by nature of his gentrified position it’s unlikely the “Dean of Death” will be suffering the consequences of his beliefs.

Howard Nemerov
September 2, 2006 – 10:41
Gun Control: Rebuttal to James Alan Fox
[An excellent fisking of this bigot (also referenced by another bigot here).–Joe]

Quote of the day–George W. Bush

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Despite their differences, these groups form the outline of a single movement, a worldwide network of radicals that use terror to kill those who stand in the way of their totalitarian ideology. And the unifying feature of this movement, the link that spans sectarian divisions and local grievances, is the rigid conviction that free societies are a threat to their twisted view of Islam.

George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
In a speech to veterans at an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City.
August 31, 2006

Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper

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Anyone who studies the matter will reach the conclusion that good marksmanship, per se, is not the key to successful gunfighting. The marksmanship problem posed in a streetfight is ordinarily pretty elementary. What is necessary, however, is the absolute assurance on the part of the shooter that he can hit what he is shooting at – absolutely without fail. Being a good shot tends to build up this confidence in the individual. Additionally, the good shot knows what is necessary on his part to obtain hits, and when the red flag flies, the concentration which he knows is necessary pushes all extraneous thinking out of his mind. He cannot let side issues such as fitness reports, political rectitude, or legal liability enter his mind. Such considerations may be heeded before the decision to make the shot is taken, and reconsidered after the ball is over; but at the time, the imperative front sight, surprise break must prevail.

Thus we have the paradox that while you almost never need to be a good shot to win a gunfight, the fact that you are a good shot may be what is necessary for you to hold the right thoughts – to the exclusion of all others – and save your life. This may come as a shock to a good many marksmanship instructors, but I have studied the matter at length and in depth, and I am satisfied with my conclusions.

Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 5, No. 1
January 1997

Quote of the day–Donald Rumsfeld

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It was a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among western democracies, when those who warned about a coming crisis, the rise of fascism and Nazism, they were ridiculed or ignored.

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This enemy is serious, lethal and relentless. But this is still not well recognized or fully understood. It seems that in some quarters, there is more of a focus on dividing our country than acting with unity against the gathering threats.

Donald Rumsfeld
August 29, 2006
Voice Of America News August 30, 2006

Quote of the day–Thomas Jefferson

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Thomas Jefferson
[Islamic extremists, please take note.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Winston Churchill

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Winston Churchill

Quote of the day–Michael Cousineau

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The war on terrorism doesn’t resemble other wars with fairly defined battlefields. Today’s enemy could be as close as the person sitting next to you on an airplane.

Michael Cousineau
Training against air terror
August 27, 2006
Union Leader
New Hampshire

Quote of the day–Robert A. Humphrey

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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

Robert A. Humphrey
[Early in my career as an engineer a wise technical manager, Ken M. at Teltone, told me it was more important to define the problem than discover a solution. It took me a few real world experiences to fully appreciate this observation. Now I see the wisdom of his counsel all around me. Gun control becomes crime control, airport security becomes defending against terrorists, and the war on terror becomes the war against Islamic extremists.–Joe]

Quote of the day–David Crockett

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Mr. Speaker–I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.

Representative David Crockett (TN)
[See also this quote by Crockett.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper

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Way back when I was a student at Command and Staff School, the class was treated to an all day session by a group of white-coated biology professors who told us all about the limitations and capabilities of “biological warfare.” This session was very secret – evidently to the point where no one learned anything from it.

The professors in this case informed us that if biological weapons were to be used, no existing affliction would be involved – not anthrax or bubonic plague or typhus or anything else that anyone had seen before. The agent used would be a synthetic disease created in a laboratory and given a code name, such as “Q27.” All members of the attacking population could be immunized against it, but the defenders would have no way of combating it since they would not know what it was.

The professors further pointed out that the symptoms of the disease could be manufactured to order and need not be permanently serious. The affliction would have to last only long enough to allow ground victory by the attacking force. These professors pointed out to the class how humane that was. Well, maybe, but anybody who chooses to use anthrax as a weapon does not understand biological warfare.

Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 6, No. 3
March 1998
[Considering that Cooper is in his 80’s and hence this class must have been at least 50 years ago the current state of the art might be “very interesting”.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Jackie Mason

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My position is that anybody who’s in favor gun control is a fucking moron.

Jackie Mason
From Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Gun Control
See also Wikipedia.
[Actually, I can think of three other options. The gun control advocate could also be one or more of the following: 1) Ignorant, 2) Evil, 3) Insane. If you are a gun control advocate and are unsure as to your classification let me know and I’ll help you figure it out.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton

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They want to return the world to a pre-age-of-reason/age-of-enlightenment world. That is where the split took place that put the muslim world as second rate to ours. They believe that their world, following the will of God, must be able to express that as also being the best world in all aspects. If not they must in the eyes of God being doing something wrong. Since they cannot compete with us in this world, they must destroy it to return it to a state when they were the best (their enlightnment during our dark ages).

Greg Hamilton
August 8, 2006 6:58 PM
From the email list: insightstraining @ yahoogroups.com

Quote of the day–Henry David Thoreau

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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849).
[I hope to expand on this theme in a blog post soon.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Ann Coulter

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Baby formula doesn’t kill people. Islamic fascists kill people.

Ann Coulter
August 20, 2006
Terrorists win!

Quote of the day–Fabian Nunez

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I think the 2008 presidential election will be won or lost on environmental degradation and new thinking on the environment.

Fabian Nunez
California Assembly Speaker
August 17, 2006
California on brink of global warming breakthrough
[We are in the middle of WWIII (or IV) and this guy thinks “new thinking on the environment” will be the deciding issue of the next presidental election? The guy is a Barking Moonbat.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Catherine Mayo

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The folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism, they cannot mention peace.

Catherine Mayo
AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: Value of dissent
March 18, 2003

[Mayo is the Barking Moonbat who urinated in the aisle of United flight 923 from London to Washington D.C. yesterday.–Joe]

Quote of the day–P. J. O’Rourke

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The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then get elected and prove it.

P. J. O’Rourke
Parliament of Whores