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• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow subject races to possess arms.
  .. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so....
• Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it.
  The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon....
• The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
  Adolph Hitler "Mein Kampf" (1889-1945)...
• During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all time
  and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives. -- John R. Lo...
• Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay, Horace ate himself one day.
  He didn't stop to say his grace, he just sat down and ate his face....
• Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. -- F.D.Roosevelt (Feb. 23, 1942)
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  -- Abba Eba...
• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  EBAN...