“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”
John Adams
“Peace is what I practice, peace is what I preach, but if they will not embrace peace, then they will learn violence, for violence I will teach.”
Kamaal Dakari Connolly
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The last thing this planet needs is another punch thrown, another grenade tossed, another missile launched; to teach self-defense in today's world is to teach kindness, compassion, and protection from mediocrity.”
Tom Callos
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to 'get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?”
William Shakespeare
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
