When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

The early worm deserves the bird.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.