Jeff Cooper Quotes

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

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

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation; but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank heaven he has put it in my power.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The nexus between modern science and violence is obvious from the fact that 80 percent of all scientific research is devoted to the war industry and is frankly aimed at large-scale violence.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

They transact no public or private business without being armed.

Those blessed ages were fortunate which wanted the dreadful fury of the devilish and murdering pieces of ordnance, to whose inventor I am verily persuaded that they render in hell an eternal reward for his diabolical invention, by which he hath given power to an infamous, base, vile, and dastardly arm to bereave the most valorous knight.

When a people consider themselves compelled by circumstances or by oppression, to appeal to arms and resort to their natural rights, they necessarily submit their cause to the great tribunal of public opinion.

Arms are dangerous instruments and not necessarily forged for good. How can we safely entrust them to any but those who have schooled themselves in the precepts of the Classics and can use these weapons for the realization of Humanity and Righteousness? To quell violence and disorder, to repulse barbarians and brigands, to rescue living souls from agony and torture, to save the nation from imminent downfall-these are the true ends of Humanity and Righteousness.

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

When you’ve got enough firepower, you win wars.

Weapons are only weapons if you’re willing to use them.

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

The shovel is the brother to the gun.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.