Posted: 4/2/2001 8:48:06 AM EDT
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By its very nature a government, no matter how well designed, will always move to usurp the liberties of its citizens, if for no other reason than the benign belief that government knows best. President Steyr. |
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"A full auto in every home, and a RPG in every garage." Garandman, Director of Fireams Imports On a (slightly) more serious note, here's one of my favorite quotes of all times- [i]Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." [/i] |
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“For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not." --Aristotle "Turkish rule in Arabia did not end when the Turks left, but rather when the Arabians no longer viewed it as legitimate." --T.E.Lawrence, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" "Happiness is interlocking fields of fire." --Jarhead_22 Semper Fi Jarhead out. |
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It is better to copulate than never.-L.Long If you don't like yourself you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. -- Lazarus Long Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Lazarus Long But, Minerva, love is what still goes on when you are not horny. --Lazurus Long, Time Enough For Love, pg 295 I was a bottle baby [...] In consequence I've been looking at tits and admiring them ever since. --Lazurus Long, Time Enough For Love, pg 373 God must love skin since he makes so much of it. Covering it with cloth or leather or fur in the name of 'decency' is a vice thought up by dirty old men; don't blame it on God. -- RAH |
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1. Women get mean when they get married. 2. Men get stupid when they get married. The question becomes-- Do women get mean because their husbands get stupid, or do men get stupid because their women get mean? Example-- (A married couple, no kids, no visitors)-- (Wife) "And just who left their Jockey Shorts on the bathroom floor??!!??" (Husband)"I dunno." (Wife)"I've told you a million times not to leave them on the floor, and you leave the toilet seat up, and the........" |
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Quoted: "If a man is not a liberal by the time he is 20 years old, he has no heart. If a man is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain." Winston Churchill You know, I've always thought that half of this quote is total bullshit. I am 33, have never been anywhere near what is considered being a liberal, and yet I think I have a heart. I have always believed in compassion coupled with limited forms of charity designed to enable the less fortunate to help better themselves. If believing that the situation in which one finds himself is predominantly the result of that individuals own decisions and actions or that empowering people to improve their lives is a better and more rewarding solution than simply endlessly throwing money at them, well, then, I guess that I truly do have no heart. |
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon "Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right." -- Ayn Rand "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine "Once you stop fearing government, the government fears you." -- Robert D. Graham, tax rebel "It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -- Niccolo Machiavelli |
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All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and CRUSH him. |