....And if you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. - Jesus Christ Luke 22:36
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood
- Gen. George S. Patton
It is true that I must run great risk; no gallant actions was ever accomplished without danger
- Admiral John Paul Jones
The plan was smooth on paper, only they forgot about the ravines - Russian military proverb
A rich man without arms must be prey to a poor soldier well armed - Niccolo Machiavelli
....opportunity waits for no man.
- Pericles
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me. - Napolean
Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less.
- General Robert E. Lee
Don't judge the world by your own shitty standards.
- Master at Arms James Keating
What's life without a little risk?
- Spike
A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two
- Benjamin Franklin
Work fast, learn slow. Work slow, learn fast.
- Maestro Ramon Martinez
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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.Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
- Santayana (thanks Doc)
Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
- Richard Fike
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
- Davy Crockett.
Molon Labe! (Come and get them!)
- King Leonidas of Sparta to Xerxes
when asked to surrender and lay down
his arms.
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. - Kit Carson on the Westward Expansion
They that can give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
In the United States there is no essential difference in the way political bodies operate, local, county, state or federal are basically the same. The only essential differences are 1) how much of your hard earned pay they take in taxes and 2) how miserable they can make your life if you anger them. For example: if you make an enemy of your mayor several things can happen. The city building inspector can suddenly take an interest in your property, or you may develop a really bad driving record. Now, piss off the President of the United States. He puts a smart bomb through your window.
- Spike's Theory of U. S. Political Science
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Winston Churchill
The merit of the action lies in finishing it to the end.
- Genghis Khan
There cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Be trained or be chaind.
- Master at Arms James A. Keating
We pay a high price for being intelligent. Wisdom hurts.
- Euirpides
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
- Homer, The Odyssey
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
People who try to guess at a threatening person's "intent" are already most of the way toward victimization.
- John Farnam
Take risk, see ya later.
- Darren Stevenson, director of PUSH Physical
Theater, saying goodbye.
The unexpected incessantly stalks the unwary.
- John Farnam
At the moment of truth, it is too late to practice!
- John Farnam
Preparation does not cause anxiety. Denial causes anxiety.
- Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
In combat you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.
- an old Gunny
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader.
- Cornelius Tacitus Annals
Rascals! Would you live forever?
- Frederick the Great, when the
Guards hesitated at Kolin
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because...it is the quality that guarantees all others.
- Sir Winston Churchill
In war the chief incalculable is the human will.
- Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart
With a ghastly casualness, we remove the organ and then demand the function. We make men without integrity, and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor, and are then shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate, and bid the geldings be fruitful.
- CS Lewis
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
-- Wendell Phillips
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men
-- Edmund Burke
We should spend our training time inspiring our students, rather than trying to impress them. Students need to be encouraged to dare and press on, making their mistakes as they go, repenting and going forward. When instructors or students insist they are already perfect and incapable of error, unable and unwilling to honestly confront their own shortcomings, no growth will take place. Disappointment and disaster await them. Fame is a trivial, petty thing, as fickle as the weather. Only fools lust after it.
- John Farnam
We must be careful not to be deceived by tests and demonstrations that are designed merely to impress, rather than inform.
- J. Farnam
They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence - Ayn Rand
My prayer to God is a very short one: 'Oh, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' God has granted it.
- Voltaire
Amateurs practice until they get it right. professionals practice until they can't get it wrong!
- J. Farnam
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand
Take arrows in your forehead, but never in your back.
- Samurai maxim
Some people have greatness thrust upon them, but few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it, not unwittingly, by doing what comes naturally, nor do they stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. No! All true excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. Nothing worthwhile may be had without effort.
- John W Gardner
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
- Michel de Montaigne
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Seneca
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - W. Somerset Maugham
"Do we really need all these laws to show us the right way? Don't we, as men of honor, just KNOW these things?" - Socrates
'.......If you wanna hear God laugh, tell him your plans.'
- Van Zant
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin
"Always remember that worthy causes meet with the most resistance, sometimes even the internal withholding of support and loyalty. If victory is always easily gained, you must reconsider the worthiness of your ambitions. It is a simple truth that the greater your accomplishments, the greater opposition, torment, and discouragement your opponents will throw in your path. Expect it! Don't become a victim of it. Know that your most worthy efforts will be scorned by your contemporaries, for it is they who suffer most when you show yourself to be more noble and virtuous then they are. If your actions and ambitions threaten them not, you are simply striving toward the insignificant."
- Attila the Hun
......But when you disarm them, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred against you.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue, and thoroughly immoral, doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence; naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor and the contrary is wishful thinking at it's worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and with their freedoms."
-Robert Heinlein
THE MORE WE EXCUSE BANEFUL, STUPID BEHAVIOR, AND INDEED FUNCTION AS FACILITATORS BY FABRICATING DELUSIONAL,
ILLOGICAL 'CURES,' THE FASTER WE, AS A CIVILIZATION, DESCEND INTO CHAOS!"
- John Farnam
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth... -- Thomas Moore
Live your life so fear of death never enters your heart. Trouble no one about his religion
Seek to make your life long and of good service
Always salute when passing a stranger in a lonely place. Show respect to all, but grovel to none.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear, so that when their time comes, they weep and whine, because they are unacquainted with the True Way and have no hope. Sing your death song only once, then step across the Great Divide, never looking back, like a hero going home."
- Tecumseh
WE NEED TO SPEND OUR TIME FINDING A WAY TO WIN,
NOT LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE TO LOSE
- John Farnam
Nobody takes actors seriously, except other actors. The same is true for any other subculture that wears costumes instead of clothes.
- Fredrick Lovret - The Way and the Power
WARRIOR'S CREED courtesy Don Gold
I am a highly principled, law abiding person
I mind my own business and do not interfere with others
It is not in my nature to hurt anything or anyone
I detest violence of any kind
I will go to great lengths to avoid a confrontation
BUT
Touch me or mine without consent
Hurt me or mine without just cause or provocation
And I will become your worst nightmare
You will awaken a sleeping dragon
Forfeit any mercy that may have been forthcoming from me
And unleash a tornado that will not abate
Before one of us down and in in a state of incapacitation.
This is not a threat
This is not a promise
This is a fact of nature
Life is meant to be exciting, not relaxing!
- John Farnam
"Never do your enemy a minor injury."
- Machiavelli
The fight will not be the way you want it to be. The fight will be the way it is. You must be flexible enough to adapt.
-- Unknown
Weasel-words are the domain of frauds and charlatans. As righteous
warriors, we need to say what we mean, and mean what we say!
- John Farnam
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Dwell upon what is right and true. Do not fill your mind with sewage
Practice and cultivate the science; become acquainted with the arts; know the principles of the crafts
Understand the harm and benefit in everything
Learn to perceive all things accurately
Become aware of what is not obvious
Be careful, even in small matters
Do not do anything useless."
- Musashi
You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
- Sun Tzu
Whenever you meet difficult situations dash forward bravely and joyfully.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure
The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.
- Richard Strozzi Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walk.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees
- Benjamin Franklin
You only go around once so you may as well make the best of your time here by living the life you really want to live! "Well, Dave, I'd like to but... " But what? Do what you gotta do! There are many people out there who live "but lives," "I shoulda lives," "I coulda lives," or "if only lives." These people are very easy to find. They're the ones we call critics: those who've become masters of the "have not" and love to spend their time telling us what we can and can't do. Avoid them! They love to pull you down. If you happen to be one, then fix it fast because it'll affect your training and your life.
- Dave Tate
We have to accept this conclusion: a commander cannot escape battle when
his adversary intends to engage him no matter what... But, when he makes a bold
attempt, holding nothing back, he may yet surprise and conquer.
- Machiavelli
Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave
- William Pitt
Mediocrity is the killer of young men's drive and souls
- Pat Hennessey
The Nation that makes a great distinction
between its scholars and its warriors
will have its thinking done by cowards
and its fighting done by fools.
– Thucydides, 5th c. BC
The unarmed are not just defenseless. They are contemptible.
- Machiavelli
I am strongly in favor of common sense, common
honesty, and common decency. Of course, this makes me forever ineligible for public
office.
- H. L. Mencken
"In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our descendants will forget the Art of War and the noble zeal which made their ancestors invincible.
Every corruption will be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our
ruin and render us easy victims to tyranny."
Sam Adams
"Reality always trumps expectation."
- Captain John Boyd
You probably have some habit or practice that I would find disgusting. If your actions do not affect me, I will leave you in peace, especially when I know as little about the subject as you obviously do about firearms. I ask of you the same courtesy. I have owned firearms my entire life. I neither owe nor offer you an apology. In addition, I resent being beaten (by the likes of you) with the same stick as what real criminals should be beaten with, and are not."
- Col. Jeff Cooper
"Who do evil should be afraid, for police do not bear arms in vain. It is in the service of God that they visit wrath upon wrongdoers."
Romans 13
"Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast, and one day you will build something that endures; something worthy of your potential."
Epicetus
"It is better, by noble boldness, to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to sit in cowardly inaction, for fear of what
audacity might bring forth."
Herodotus
"Never give in to adversity. Never trust prosperity. And, never fail to take full note of fortune's irritating habit of doing exactly as she pleases!"
- Via Mr. Farnam
"I am a free man, regardless of what set of "rules" surround me. When I find them tolerable, I tolerate them. When I find them obnoxious, I ignore them. I remain free, because I know and understand that I alone bear full responsibility for everything I do, or chose not to do."
R Heinlein
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.—The Dhammapada
Justice has been rerouted
From present to future tense;
The law is so in love with the law
It's forgotten common sense.
Does man now serve the law, I ask,
When law was made by man?
Or, law still serve its rightful task:
protecting men from Man?
Ogden Nash
"Find out just what the people will submit to, and you will have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue until they are resisted, with either words or blows, or both.The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
