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- That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
- John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir
- We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
- Paul Rodriguez
- Americans, indeed all free men, remember that inn the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in praise of Robert Frost, 1963
- When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
- Marv Levy
- A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter, 1810
- One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955), Meditations on Hunting
- When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Winner Take Nothing
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