Longenecker Quotes

#1. If I've learned one thing about a woman: they'll get over every damn single tragedy without losing the charm of their smile.

Sarvesh Jain

#2. The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

John Longenecker

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different
it is being alive.

Lauren Oliver

#6. It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

John Longenecker

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

Jonathan Cain

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains.

Chris Matakas

#13. Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

John Longenecker

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Matthew Arnold

#17. I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.

Walter Moers

#18. Real strength has to do with helping others.

Fred Rogers

#19. An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

Avey Tare

#20. A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

Judy Blume

#21. Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

John Longenecker

#22. If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

J.G. Ballard

#23. 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

#24. Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

John Longenecker

#25. 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

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

John Longenecker

#27. Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

Dwight Longenecker

#28. 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