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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good read more
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of read more
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I read more
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have read more
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply read more
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.
A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.