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Posted: 9/13/2005 1:20:55 PM EDT

What is your favorite quote? It can be from a politician, movie, book, whatever. Here is mine.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

--Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:21:54 PM EDT

[#1]

"If I'm going to die for a word, my word is poontang".

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:22:59 PM EDT

[#2]

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
~ Jerome K Jerome ~

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:26:46 PM EDT

[#3]

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:27:55 PM EDT

[#4]

"Pull my finger."
- My Dad, 1967.

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:28:02 PM EDT

[#5]

"Get Both"

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:28:56 PM EDT

[#6]

Read my sig line.

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:35:49 PM EDT

[#7]

another sigline submission...it's amazing the wisdom you can find on ARFCOM

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:36:13 PM EDT

[#8]

See below:

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:41:38 PM EDT

[#9]

Not the greatest, but I like it

This reminds me of a great rant by Dennis Miller, one that we should all take note of...

The joke world can get tough; wear a cup. Don't let them know they've rattled you if it hits close to home. You should be able to take a joke right in the solar plexus; get up! Get that two-cycle weedwacker engine of a brain humming and give as good as you got.

And if you get bested, go home, sharpen your verbal machete and get right back and get ready for the next thicken. DONT call Gloria Alred; DONT go to court; DONT steal a machine gun and shoot everybody at the party who made fun of your Jiffy Pop rag hat. Relax!

We should question it all; poke fun at it all; piss off on it all; rail against it all; and most importantly, for Christ's sake, laugh at it all. Because the only thing separating holy writ from complete bullshit is your perspective. Its your only weapon. Keep the safety off. Don't take yourself too seriously.

EPOCH

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:45:16 PM EDT

[#10]

sig line.

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:46:48 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
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"Nuts!"

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:48:39 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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"Nuts!"

That was the 101st Abn.

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:49:02 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

You took my favorite.

I also like "Pushing through fear is ultimatly less difficult than living with a sense of helplessness". I just dont know who said it.

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:52:36 PM EDT

[#14]

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:55:13 PM EDT

[#15]

"Yo Hommie... Is that my briefcase?"

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:55:33 PM EDT

[#16]

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16

Posted: 9/13/2005 1:57:14 PM EDT

[#17]

This is about Marcus Cato the Younger, and it refers to his last efforts to preserve the Roman Republic against Caesar's tyrrany:

"He stood alone against the vices of a degenerate state that was sinking to destruction beneath it's very weight. He stayed the fall of the Republic to the utmost that one man's hand could do to draw it back, until he was at last withdrawn himself, and shared in that fate which he had so long averred. And the two whom Heaven willed could never part were blotted out together, for Cato did not survive freedom, nor freedom Cato. "

-Seneca, De Constantibus

Every lover of republican virtue should read the few pages of Plutarch's Life of Cato

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:11:24 PM EDT

[#18]

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Posted: 9/13/2005 2:14:37 PM EDT

[#19]

It was 10 Iraqi Divisions against 2 USMC Divisions.........It was a fair fight!!.........Marine General Gulf War I

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:24:51 PM EDT

[#20]

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! History of the Song

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:28:04 PM EDT

[#21]

"Molon Labe"

- Leonidas, King of Sparta.

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:29:48 PM EDT

[#22]

Trifles light as air are, to the jealous, confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Iago - Othello

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:30:14 PM EDT

[#23]

Molon Labe

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:31:11 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
What is your favorite quote? It can be from a politician, movie, book, whatever. Here is mine.

Ipsa scientia potestas est - Knowledge itself is power. (Bacon)

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:31:12 PM EDT

[#25]

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:31:41 PM EDT

[#26]

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:32:06 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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"Nuts!"

Damn it... You beat me to it fucker!

~Dg84

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:34:12 PM EDT

[#28]

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt

In what movie did this quote appear?

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:35:44 PM EDT

[#29]

They have their schedule, and I have mine.

Patton (the movie)

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:45:14 PM EDT

[#30]

"Suck my dick." - Demi Moore, "G.I. Jane"

Oh, and below.

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:51:28 PM EDT

[#31]

"This is what comes of empire building."

-Name who said it!

Posted: 9/13/2005 2:57:54 PM EDT

[#32]

"You know, of course, that if you strap a slice of buttered bread, butter side up, to a cat's back and drop the cat from a high place, the cat will spin in place just above the ground. This is due to the well-established facts that (1) a cat always lands on its feet and (2) bread always lands butter side down." FLAL1A

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:12:44 PM EDT

[#33]

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

- Gen. George S. Patton, US Army

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:22:46 PM EDT

[#34]

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:25:34 PM EDT

[#35]

Lifes a bitch but, god forbid tthe bitch divorce me. -Nas

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:29:34 PM EDT

[#36]

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage."

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:29:45 PM EDT

[#37]

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

Variation on an Ed Burke quote from "Boondock Saints"

Always loved that one, and it especially has a renewed meaning for the here and now.

Meat

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:34:28 PM EDT

[#38]

See my sig line.

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:36:17 PM EDT

[#39]

[MESSENGER TO COLONEL LEWIS B. "CHESTY" PULLER]: "Sir, do you know they've cut us off? We're entirely surrounded."

[COLONEL LEWIS B. "CHESTY" PULLER IN RESPONSE TO MESSENGER]: "Those poor bastards. They've got us right where we want 'em. We can shoot in every direction now."

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:37:48 PM EDT

[#40]

Here are the quotes, but can you name the authors?

"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

SBG

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:38:30 PM EDT

[#41]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
---Thomas Jefferson

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:44:31 PM EDT

[#42]

"Wanna learn the easist way ta get somethin' done? Watch a fat guy."

....a long since departed, but much cherished friend.

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:46:22 PM EDT

[#43]

“And unfortunately, in the final result it does not matter how brave a man is, but how closely he can hold.”

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:49:43 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Here are the quotes, but can you name the authors?

"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."

SBG

Teddy Roosevelt

Posted: 9/13/2005 3:50:05 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
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That contrast makes my brain hurt.

Posted: 9/13/2005 4:19:16 PM EDT

[#46]

"I am the ONLY one professional enough in this room to carry a Glo..." BOOM! Right in the leg.

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OR... "The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache."

Posted: 9/13/2005 4:32:16 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16

That's what I was thinking.

I also like:
"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

Tallulah Bankhead