Raymond Chandler Quotes

My pistols, however, I always kept by me.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Defend yourselves instantly, and I say you will be wise: delay it, and you may wish in vain to do so hereafter.

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.

We continue to be vigilant.

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.

Only the paranoid survive.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.