# A Pound of Cure ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91NuVfffNrL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Mark Goodwin]] - Full Title: A Pound of Cure - Category: #books ## Highlights - “Everyone needs a mission-specific load out. That will consist of a primary and a secondary weapon, seven fully loaded magazines for your primary weapon, at least three mags for your secondary, two liters of water, a means of purifying water, an emergency food ration bar, a radio, a blood stopper kit, and camouflage. You’ll also need a flashlight with a red-light filter. ([Location 968](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=968)) - Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would have none of my counsel and despised my every rebuke. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be secure, without fear of evil.   Proverbs 1:28-33 NKJV ([Location 1636](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=1636)) - We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.   George Orwell, 1984 ([Location 2190](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=2190)) - A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.   Ted Turner ([Location 2356](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=2356)) - Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.   Benjamin Franklin ([Location 2848](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=2848)) - It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men   Sam Adams ([Location 3378](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=3378)) - You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.   John Adams ([Location 3502](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=3502)) - If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.   Thomas Paine ([Location 4171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LRRPKQY&location=4171))