MA Firearm Safety

Roman General Marcus Aurelius 121-180 BC : {“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present”}

Confederate General Robert E. Lee 1807-1870 : {” We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters”}

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman 1820-1891 :{“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast”}

Union General John A. Logan 1826-1886 ,  :{“Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, nor ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic”}    NOTE: This was his hope about Memorial Day, a tradition which he began. note: [avarice], meaning “excessive or insatiable desire or greed”. MS

U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 : {” I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within”}

U.S. Army General George S. Patton 1885-1945 : {“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable”}

U.S Army General Omar N. Bradley 1893-1981 : {“We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship”}

 Submitted by Mark Shean 5-31-2010