During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I can’t conceive of a more convincing argument for an armed citizenry.
The Soviet Union should be the ultimate cautionary tale for just about everything that could be wrong with a government. I’ve been using so many Solzhenitsyn quotes because the young morons in our country are circling around socialism again.