• Don't pull yer thang out, unless you came to bang. 'Bombs Over Bagdad" Outcast

   
• We are what we repeatedly do.

  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

   

  * Aristotle*

   
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden

PEOPLE NEVER IMPROVE UNLESS THEY LOOK TO SOME STANDARD OR EXAMPLE HIGHER AND BETTER THAN THEMSELVES
 TYRON EDWARDS

• Courage is a special kind of Knowledge: The Knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared, and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. (Forgot the author)

• "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person." -- James Madison's June 8, 1789 speech to Congress proposing the Bill of Rights

• Good things come to those who wait. Better things come sooner to those who don't. - L.Dickerson

• The ONE thing that you can ALWAYS expect from a dog is that he will be a dog. - L.Dickerson

• "I believe nothing I hear and only half of what I see." - Inspector Clouseau

• "Sometimes the appropriate technology is a #2 pencil." - Donald R. Swartz

• "Money Talks, of that I'm sure.  It's just that mine is always saying goodbye" - Donald R. Swartz

• "It's like a finger pointing up to the moon. If you concentrate on the finger you will miss out on all the heavenly glory." - Bruce Lee

• "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain

   

  "A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else." – Waite Phillips

   

  "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." – Benjamin Franklin

   

  "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." – Elizabeth Kenny

   

  Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind trying to express itself forcibly." -- Jeff Cooper

   

  If guns cause crime, then logic follows without question that; cameras cause pornography, matches cause arson, automobiles cause accidents, bathing suits cause drowning, computers cause email, baseball bats cause home runs, blenders cause margaritas, elections cause corruption and, of course, grandmothers cause adultery.

   

  "Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful." -- William Shakespeare

   

  A code to live by.

  Say what you do, and do what you say.
  Be self-reliant, but be willing to lend a hand.
  Show deference and courtesy to the aged, the ladies and the young.
  Let the other fellow go his own way.

  "We have two choices: Either we change the way we live, or we must change the way they live. We choose the latter." – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

   

  "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." – Henry J. Kaiser

   

  Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -- Ambrose Redmoon

   

  "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. It is the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." – Thomas Paine

   

  "I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means...." – John Adams

   

  A bullet comes out of the barrel
  A cartridge goes into the breech
  As you carefully choose your apparel
  Take equal pains with your speech.

  Jeff Cooper

• "Bad Cop - no donut!" bumpersticker
   

• Once - shame on you, twice-shame on me. Unknown

• Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. Unknown

• "To make the sport of baseball more interesting they should let the batters hang on to the bats." Marty G.

• Honor and Courage are a Warriors Right and Left Hands. Sun Tzu

• Almost everything comes from almost nothing. (Forgot)

• Technology doesn't make you less stupid, it makes you stupid faster. (Unknown)

• Indecision is the thief of opportunity. Jim Rohn
  (And the theif of your pulse! L. Dickerson)

• "If you can't explain why you are doing something, you probably shouldn't be doing it."  -- I attribute this to Mass Ayoob, but many others have used it as well. Sent by Marty.

• You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it. (old saying). Sent by Alicea.

• "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." – Sam Rayburn

On Tactics

• Never, NEVER quit the fight.
• USMC Rules for Gun fighting:

  1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
  2. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
  3. Have a plan.
  4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won't work.
  5. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
  6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a 4.
  7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
  8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.)
  9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
  10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
  11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
  12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
  13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating and reloading.
  14. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
  15. And above all ... don't drop your guard.

• Tactics-Controlling imbalance of power. Unknown

• ...Creating as much of an infair advantage in your favor as possible. Unknown

• No "FAIR-ONES". C.O. credo

• FOOLS RUN
  WISE MEN THINK
  GREAT WARRIORS FIGHT
  UNKNOWN WARRIORS THINK TWICE
                              -John Ramos 1982
  
  
  WE SHOULD CAREFULLY STUDY OUR PAST
  IF WE WISH TO UNDERSTAND OUR PRESENT.
  IN THE END IT WILL  HELP US TO PREPARE FOR OUR FUTURE.
                              -John Ramos 1988
• The second best defense against a knife attack is a knife attack (the first is a bullet). L.Dickerson

• " Whatever you brought, if it's all you have, get off the first shot, hit the right spot and hit it a lot"
  Unknown author, sent by Fern.
•    "Shoot Straight~N~Take Cover". another by Fern