Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Quote of the day–Alistair Carmichael

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This delay is yet another example of Home Office inability to operate computer systems, and if they cannot get a relatively simple system for a firearms register like this to work so many years after such an awful disaster, what hope is there for the vast system needed to make identity cards work?

Alistair Carmichael
Orkney and Shetland MP
March 5, 2006
Dunblane gun crackdown ‘a failure’
News.Scotsman.com
[There is no hope of a system of national identity cards working.  If you have doubts read this.–Joe]

Quote of the day–William F. Buckley, Jr.

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I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
Literature
Rumbles

Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper

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We were recently treated to a bizarre exchange between a hapless Englishman and some BATchick in some front office in Washington. Our English friend was inquiring about bringing his arms into the United States, and was told that he could not import a Peacemaker (Colt Single-action Army) because it had no “legitimate sporting purpose!” Now, apart from the fact that “legitimate sporting purpose” is a blatantly unconstitutional interpretation of the Second Amendment, it is apparent that these poor souls who are confined to the District of Columbia cannot keep up with the times. Clearly the girl involved had not heard of the proliferation of “Cowboy Action Shooting.” I stuck my oar in to tell her that this sort of bureaucratic behavior gives ignorance a bad name. I guess I can expect the black helicopters any night now.

 

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

Quote of the day–Peter Mwaura

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For them, a gun is a symbol of power and potency… The gun has replaced the spear as a phallic symbol.

Peter Mwaura
Nairobi
The Nation
Owning a Gun Sign of Power And Success
February 25, 2006
[I get rather annoyed at people that believe they can read the minds of others and invariably fail.  This guy is no exception.  In all likelihood it is Mwaura that has the mental problems.  Thanks to Jeff for the pointer.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Norman R. Augustine

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By the time of the nation’s tricentennial, there will be more government workers in the United States than there are workers.

Norman R. Augustine
From: “Defense Systems Management Review”

Quote of the day–John Howard

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And one of the things I don’t admire about America is their … slavish love of guns. They’re evil.

John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia
March 01, 2006
The Australian

Quote of the day–Albert Camus

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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad…. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus

Quote of the day–Lyle Keeney

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The power of Liberty is often called depravity by those who do not possess it.

Lyle Keeney
Comment on The View From North Central Idaho
February 27, 2006

Quote of the day–Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the day–George Bernard Shaw

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The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who do not possess it.


George Bernard Shaw
[I’m thinking of the crisis the world has with Islamic extremists.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Lao Tsu

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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Lao Tsu
[In the more narrow context of “gun crime” this is also true.  The more restrictions on firearms the more useful they are to criminals and the more likely they are to use them.  If all potential victims were armed the criminals would be more likely to avoid situations where they could be shot.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Eric Steven Raymond

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…the Noam Chomskys and Michael Moores and Robert Fisks of the world (and their thousands of lesser imitators in faculty lounges everywhere) are not brave transgressive forward-thinkers but pathetic memebots running the program of a dead tyrant.

Eric Steven Raymond (ESR)
Gramscian damage
[ESR doesn’t just claim this.  He proves it.  Great blog posting.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton

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Chances are, if you’re ever going to be involved in a home defense situation with a shotgun, you’ll be in your birthday-suit.  So unless you’ve got ammunition Velcro’d to your ass, all the extra ammunition you’ll have will be on the gun.

Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
March 7, 1999

Quote of the day–Mike Machado

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I think this is a train wreck waiting to happen.

Mike Machado
California State Senator
Talking about “Real ID” which is expected by most to be a real mess.
[For expense think about the Canadian gun registry on steroids.  Plus it can’t possibly achieve it’s intended goals.–Joe]

Quote of the day–John F. Kennedy

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The mere absence of war is not peace.

John F. Kennedy

Quote of the day–Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi

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This is a unanimous decision by all imams of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize.

Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi
Peshawar, Pakistan
February 17, 2006
Cleric announcing rewards of $1 million dollars, one million rupees, 500,000 rupees, and a car for the killing of the cartoonist who drew the prophet.

Quote of the day–John Quincy Adams

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Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams
[I just got all caught up on my paperwork dealing with the bigoted felons at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Thomas Jefferson

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson
Letter Nov. 13, 1787
referring to Shay’s rebellion
[Present day examples of tyrants and patriots abound and are a constant reminder we must not give up the fight to keep our right to keep and bear arms.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Robert Heinlein

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If “everybody knows” such-and-such, then it ain’t so, by at least ten thousand to one.

Robert Heinlein
[Can you say “we need more gun control?”–Joe]

Quote of the day–Wayne LaPierre

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New Orleans was the first place in American history to disarm peaceable citizens, house-by-house, at gunpoint. And I promise you this standing here today: We at the NRA are going to make sure it’s the last place it ever happens.

Never again can Michael Bloomberg or Rebecca Peters or Mike Wallace, or the United Nations, or the Brady Center, or anywhere else say that honest citizens don’t need firearms because what happened in New Orleans proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what we’ve said all along.

The next time some arrogant politician looks at you and says, ‘Why does anyone need to own a gun?’ I want you to look them straight in the face and say this: ‘Remember New Orleans!'”

‘Why do you need to own a gun?’ Remember New Orleans!

‘Aren’t you just being kind of paranoid?’ Remember New Orleans!

‘Why does anyone need right to carry?’ Remember New Orleans!

‘What makes you think our government would ever try to confiscate your guns?’ Remember New Orleans!

‘Is the Second Amendment really relevant in the 21st Century?’ Remember New Orleans!

Wayne LaPierre
Executive Vice President
National Rifle Association
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