"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
They are the American people's liberty
teeth
and keystone under independence....
From the hour the Pilgrims landed,
to the present day,
events, occurrences and tendencies prove
that to ensure peace,
security and happiness,
the rifle, and the pistol
are equally indispensable....
The very atmosphere of firearms
anywhere and everywhere
restrains evil interference -
they deserve a place of honor with all
that's good...."
~
George
Washington
Excellence
is an art won by training and habit. We
do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have
those because we have acted rightly. We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an art, but a habit.
~
Aristotle
"VF-181 lessons to live by"
1 - You can only do what you can do.
2 - Don't expect to rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.
3 - There's no such thing as a free lunch.
4 - A little subtle keying helps on radio calls.
5 - At 90 degrees angle of bank the lift slides off the wings.
6 -
7 - Be King Kong on radar and have King Kong eyes.
8 - When the BBs are flying it's time for your last best move.
9 - Think big, think basics -- and cheat like hell!
10 - When planning a fight see rule number 1.
Barrett Tillman (The Sixth Battle - page 82 )
In
any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
"Those
who would give up essential liberty,
to
purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear."
~ John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to
win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in
the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899
It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and
again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself
in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.
No
man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
Speak
softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
There is no room in this country for
hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation
to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all,
would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Speech before the Knights of Columbus
I
am as strong as a bull moose. You may use me as you will.
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings that thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
The contest in
America John
Stuart Mill FEB 1862