QUOTES
A Few Random Zingers Of Possible Relevance From Various Sources

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"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson

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"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."
- The Dalai Lama

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"Molon labe." ("Come and get them.")

- Attributed to Leonidas, King of the Spartans, at Thermopylae, in response to a Persian demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons. Actually the quote is almost certainly bogus; it comes to us from Plutarch, and Herodotos mentions no such exchange. But it sounds cool and has been adopted as a slogan in certain circles.

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"A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a Common Enemy."

- Lord Halifax

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"In a prosperous democracy that is also a society of winners and losers, any man without an equalizer or at least the illusion of one is by definition underprivileged."

- Hunter Thompson

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"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws and cops will have guns. I intend to be one of the outlaws."

- Ed Abbey

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"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy, and it is our job to see that it stays there."
- George Orwell

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"One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy."

- Col. Jeff Cooper

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"Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." ("A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in a killer's hand.")

- Seneca

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"When you disarm your subjects, however, 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

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"If you are going to kick authority in the teeth you may as well use both feet."

- Keith Richards

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"Paranoia and common sense come together as the world goes insane."

- Norman Mailer

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"The signs are evident, and very ominous, and a chill wind blows."

- Justice Blackmun

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Revolution is an idea that has found its bayonets."
- Napoleon

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"To do evil a human being must first believe that what he is doing is good."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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"Jesus said: The Kingdom of the Father is like a man who wished to kill an important person. He drew his sword in his house, he thrust it into the wall in order to know whether his hand would carry through. Then he killed the important person."

- The Gospel of St. Thomas

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