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When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

- Jeff Cooper

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Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

- Jeff Cooper

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Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

- Jeff Cooper

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The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

- Jeff Cooper

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“It is interesting to hear certain kinds of people insist that the citizen cannot fight the government. This would have been news to the men of Lexington and Concord, as well as the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The citizen most certainly can fight the government, and usually wins when he tries. Organized national armies are useful primarily for fighting against other organized national armies. When they try to fight against the people, they find themselves at a very serious disadvantage. If you will just look around at the state of the world today, you will see that the guerillero has the upper hand. Irregulars usually defeat regulars, providing they have the will. Such fighting is horrible to contemplate, but will continue to dominate brute strength.”

-Col. Jeff Cooper

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Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

- Jeff Cooper

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"We hear overmuch about "self-esteem" as a goal in elementary education. The older term "self-respect" seems more to the point. The difference is that self-respect must be earned by conscientious endeavor, but self-esteem seems to be offered simply to any child who is alive and breathing. Teaching a young person that he is excellent simply because he is there is not the route to producing good citizens."

-Jeff Cooper

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"Continuing in our hopeless struggle for precise semantics, we ask somebody to tell us just what exactly is a "terrorist"? My own notion is that a terrorist is one who is ready to kill a third party, who is not involved in the discussion, in order to coerce a first party by appealing to his humanity. That apparently, is not the generally accepted definition."

-Jeff Cooper

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An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

- Jeff Cooper

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Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

- Jeff Cooper

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It is an uphill struggle, but I wish that we could distinguish more carefully between freedom and liberty. These conditions are not the same, though they are certainly related. Freedom is the absence of restraint – a physical circumstance. Liberty, on the other hand, is a political situation denoting the lawful capability of the citizen to defend himself and his near and dear without interference from the state. Note that the Declaration of Independence forcibly and particularly establishes the blessings of liberty upon ourselves and our posterity.

– Col. Jeff Cooper

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"A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half."

-Jeff Cooper