Dwight D. Eisenhower on guns

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527

• Freedom
• War & Peace

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Zedong1893–1976“Problems of War and Strategy”, 1938.

• War & Peace

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959

• Writing