Nick Stango

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most of which were still in my trunk anyway.”
― Charles Palliser, Rustication

“in the military if you are not there fifteen minutes early you are late.”
― Kurt Schlichter, The Attack

“was not. I finally got home, locked myself in my house, and got out a golf club to brain anyone coming in. No one came that time, but I was done being a victim. Once things got under control, I replaced my nine-iron with a nine-millimeter. I have been a prepper ever since. I learned about guns, of course. I learned to shoot, then to make my own ammo, then to gunsmith. I learned survival medicine – I am basically an EMT. I learned about food in an austere environment, and how to get safe water. There is this whole plethora of skills our pioneer ancestors knew, but we forgot. We outsourced them to other people, which is fine – when everything works. When it doesn’t, then you have a problem.”
― Kurt Schlichter, The Attack

“I do not deny that I ignored the law, but what is the law but a tool to make the lawmakers rich and everyone else poor?”
― Kurt Schlichter, The Attack