Category: Friday Quote

Carrying a firearm imposes the responsibility to avoid confrontations and use prudence in situations where they might occur. Ego, anger, rage, and pride are not justification for deadly force no matter how enraged or offended one may be.

The first degree of folly is to conceit one’s self wise; the second to profess it; the third is to despise counsel.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually

EVERY STUPID IDEA THAT IS IN VOGUE TODAY HAS BEEN TRIED BEFORE and proved disastrous before, time and again.

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action: rather it is timing it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

There is nothing so useless as efficiently doing that which should not be done at all.

H/t to The Brother