Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.
Jeff CooperThe purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.
Jeff CooperIf it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.
Jeff CooperAnyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.
Jeff CooperPersonal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a rifle - a really good rifle - and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and - most significantly - from a subject to a citizen.
Jeff Cooper