clubsoda22
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I don't think Robert Heinlein gets enough credit. Everyone quotes Jeff Cooper, but Heinlein deserves at least equal credit, despite being a science ficton writer and not a gunfighter. This guy is awesome.
Quotes:
"Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your
second shot perfect."
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
"The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom."
"...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose."
"The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness."
"There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men."
"Love your country, but never trust its government."
"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is the least to be cheap and is never free of cost."
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
"Never insult anyone by accident."
"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid)."
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
Quotes:
"Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your
second shot perfect."
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
"The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom."
"...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose."
"The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness."
"There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men."
"Love your country, but never trust its government."
"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is the least to be cheap and is never free of cost."
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
"Never insult anyone by accident."
"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid)."
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."