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English author and journalist 1903–1950

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“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

“That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994

“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that ‘violence begets violence.’ I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure—and in some cases I have—that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

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

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

“The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

“The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

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“The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government.”

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“We remember the refrain from the Phillippines: ‘Underneath the starry flag/Civilize him with a Krag /And then get underway for home sweet home.’ But you have to civilize him first, and how you do that with the ragheads is the problem.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

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“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to ‘Gauteng.’ (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) … And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was ‘taken from the blacks.’ This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist

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“Anal sex is a lot like spinach: if you're forced to have it as a child, you won't enjoy it as an adult.”

Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian

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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time,
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Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer

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“I love those who can smile in trouble…”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“How man has come to be the complex being that he is and why, are questions that neither Science nor Religion makes conclusive answer to. This immortal thinker having such vast powers and possibilities, all his because of his intimate connection with every secret part of Nature from which he has been built up, stands at the top of an immense and silent evolution. He asks why Nature exists, what the drama of life has for its aim, how that aim may be attained….”

William Quan Judge (1851–1896) American occult writer

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“I was filled with determination, to do my best to expose and destroy what i then knew to be a legalized infamy, responsible for a vast destruction of human life.”

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“All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.”

François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop

Toutes les guerres sont civiles; car c'est toujours l'homme contre l'homme qui répand son propre sang, qui déchire ses propres entrailles.
Dialogues des morts, ch. 17, cited from De l'éducation des filles, Dialogues des morts et opuscules divers (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1857) p. 149; translation from Mr. Elphingston (trans.) Dialogues of the Dead, Together with Some Fable Composed for the Education of a Prince (Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1754) vol. 1, p. 87. (1700).

“I expect a judgment. Shortly.”

Charles Dickens book Bleak House

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 3

“He wos wery good to me, he wos!”

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