Hunter S. Thompson on guns

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I hate to advocate alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)

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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

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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.

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