Longenecker Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party. — Holly Black

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known. — John Longenecker

Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of police; the latitude to act reasonably, to act immediately, to act in defense of self, to act in defense of another, to act with lethal force, to act with her acquired training and to act not in anger but to respond in purpose. To exercise the protections of that latitude in public policy, public interest and practical safety, all that is demanded of her is that she act reasonably under the circumstances. — John Longenecker

Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think. — Dwight Longenecker

When the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force. — John Longenecker

There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system. — John Longenecker

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe. — Dwight Longenecker

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first. — John Longenecker

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will.
I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible. — Patrick Ness

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed. — John Longenecker

Life demands more thinking than remembering. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness. — John Longenecker

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States. — John Longenecker

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. — John Jay Chapman

The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime is fought best not by chasing it, but by facing it before it can become a completed act.

Crime is fought best at the scene of the violence. — John Longenecker

If you don't want to see me again, say so. But it's not right to say nothing. It's not right to go silent. You know what to do. — Emily Winslow

Here, astoundingly, crucifixion on a cross is a model around which Paul's audiences are to construct the whole of their life. — Bruce W. Longenecker

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation. — John Longenecker

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing. — Anton Webern

The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management. — John Longenecker

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall. — Dwight Longenecker

But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded. — Russell Hoban

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate. — Ed Gillespie

We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for. — Dwight Longenecker

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog. — Dwight Longenecker

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity — Dwight Longenecker

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule. — John Longenecker

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?" — Dwight Longenecker

We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be? — Edward James Olmos

A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness. — John Ziman