Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.