• Incremental achievements are far superior to postponed success or as we say in Tennessee... Life is a cinch by the inch but gets hard by the yard. 
  
  

• "A true Warrior doesn’t seek war, nor does he wish to do battle. He merely believes that it is honorable to cling to a worthy cause. It is noble to reach out to those who are weaker than yourself. And it is valiant to believe that many things are worth giving up everything for." - Phil Messina
  
  

• "The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an 'equalizer.' Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.  If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." 
  - Edward Abbey, 1979
  
  

• "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt

• To be a Warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. - Albert Einstein

• "There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is."  -Albert  Einstein

•  "He is best who is trained in the severest school." - Thucydides

• "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." - Adolph Hitler

• "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoidance of danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller, The Open Door, 1902

• "The will to win, compares little with the will to prepare to win." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

• "The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
  The people who COUNT the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin

• "I know how to count votes and I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation do a recount when needed."  - Ted Nugent

• "Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation.
  
  The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble."  - Ted Nugent

• "I don't believe in hate crime legislation. Even suggesting it makes me mad. You're telling me that someone who is a minority, gay, disabled, another nationality, or otherwise different from the mainstream of this country has more value as a human being that I do as a white male. If someone kills anyone, I'd say that it's a hate crime. We don't need more laws! Let's enforce the ones we already have."  - Ted Nugent

• "I believe no one ever died because of something Ozzy Osbourne, Ice-T or Marilyn Manson sang, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to that crap from someone else's car when I'm stopped at a red light.  But I respect your right to."  - Ted Nugent

• "It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to." --C. S. Lewis

• "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." –Aristotle

• "Of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine are real fighters. We are lucky to have them, they make the battle. AH, BUT THE ONE! One of them is a WARRIOR and he will bring the others back." - Hericletus c. 500 B.C. ***** Be the ONE!

• "There is no little enemy." --Benjamin Franklin

• "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

• "The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it." --Elmer Davis

• "God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars." --Elbert Hubbard

• "No man's opinion is any better than his background, his experience, and his general common sense." - Jack O'Conner

• "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." - Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness

• "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

• "The HERO is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." - Henry David Thoreau

• "Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready." - Theodore Roosevelt, San Francisco , CA , May 13, 1903

• "Americans learn by disaster, not by history."  - President Theodore Roosevelt

  (Let us hope we prove the great man wrong.)

• "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."  -Theodore Roosevelt

• When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.   

He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."  

It became very quiet in the room.

• "A great master, a great teacher, is always gentle and humble.  At the same time, he is like a razor sharp sword."  - Kensho Furuya: Kodo: Ancient Ways .

• "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.  Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."  -Thomas Jefferson - quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist, 1764

• "A gun cannot harm anyone unless there is a human being to pull the trigger. Ten million guns would be harmless unless some human became stimulated by hate, greed or prejudice. So, the gun controversy becomes a spiritual problem. While strict gun laws might have some effect in showing the world that we are concerned about the problem of violence, violence is really a thing of the human heart and conscience. If men harbor the desire to kill and maim, they will find a way, guns or no guns." - Rev. Billy Graham November 1968

• "The very fame of our strength and readiness would be a means of discouraging our enemies; for 'tis a wise and true saying, that `One sword often keeps another in the scabbard.' The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent." - 1747 (Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 2:352.)