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.

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.