Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.