If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard. Jeff Cooper More Quotes by Jeff Cooper More Quotes From Jeff Cooper Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse. Jeff Cooper horse democracy offering When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive. Jeff Cooper delay bears action Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar. Jeff Cooper musician guitar gun Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action. Jeff Cooper appearance action doe Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. Jeff Cooper safety gun hands We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely. Jeff Cooper self-defense justified victim A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it. Jeff Cooper gun men thinking Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others. Jeff Cooper self-defense consideration causes It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who is not, and when their intended victim shoots back it hurts their feelings - along with other things. Jeff Cooper gun hurt feelings If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive. Jeff Cooper alertness warning littles Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing. Jeff Cooper self doe long The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people. Jeff Cooper philosophy country father The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses. Jeff Cooper winning action doe The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him. Jeff Cooper criminals fighting doe Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. Jeff Cooper second-amendment constitution liberty The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack. Jeff Cooper self-defense explosives defense Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object. Jeff Cooper queens dream exercise Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them. Jeff Cooper democracies-have elements democracy The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair. Jeff Cooper gun eye choices Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without. Jeff Cooper criminals trying people
