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

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where read more

The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...

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.

"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.

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.

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.