A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

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.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

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

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.