If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.

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.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.