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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson
How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?
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Valerie Martin, The Great Divorce
The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind... If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever.
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Elgin Gates, Trophy Hunter in Asia
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.
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John Foster Dulles
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
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James Swan, In Defense of Hunting
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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