"What does this button do?" former Challenger astronaut

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.  Ash -Army of darkness

Well allow me to retort...  Jules --Pulp fiction

I don't know who said it but my favorite is "illigitimus non carburundum"  (don't let the bastards get you down)

jim

I have put some quotes on my site and I will be adding more later:

S76 - Great Quotes From Great People

You gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie ?

Not sure about the authors and accuracy, many of these were taken from this board and some others & misc sources, my apologies for the length:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls & looks like work”

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson

Democracy - the notion that it is moral to steal and murder as long as the majority is in favor of committing the crime.

In many cases, being creative means protecting your source.

With regard to your profession: do want you want to do, who you want to do it for and where you want to do it.

"The more restrictive the laws, the poorer the people; The more the laws are in evidence, the more do thieves and robbers abound." - Lao-Tse, Chinese teacher 600 BC

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: "From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."
- Alexander Fraser Tytler (later Lord Alexander Fraser Woodhouslee), in "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic," published 1776

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety - Ben Franklin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Romania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, least we become unwitting victims of the darkness - Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)   -As Justice Douglas stated, we are currently in that twilight. We have seen our freedoms exchanged for the promise of greater security and the government try to usurp the role of religion in our country. Those with eyes can see the destruction and failure these policies have created.

There are commands of the sovereign one does not accept. - Sun Tzu

"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." -Thomas Jefferson

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. - William Burroughs

We are supposed to be America:

- The American people are supposed to be educated. Compared to our Founding Fathers, we are not educated. Compared to some third-world states, our children are behind in many subjects.

- The American people are supposed to elect representatives who will abide by the Constitution and do what is best for America. Instead we (as a nation) elect representatives based upon who will give us the most money and benefits (taken from other Americans).

- The American government is supposed to keep the people informed.  Instead, our government misleads us rather consistently and keeps us uninformed by deceit, by the sheer volume of their legislation, by hidden and misleading amendments, by “fine print” in their laws, by outright lies and by directives and policies with no basis in law.

- Our government is supposed to comply with the spirit of the Constitution. Instead our government “interprets” or ignores both the spirit and the letter of our supreme law - the Constitution.

- We are Americans. We are not supposed to compare ourselves to other countries and say, “We are better.” We are supposed to compare ourselves to what we were, to what we should be, and (most of all) to what we could be.

Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."- Charles Austin Beard, 1874 - 1948

"With every decision there is a condition and with every choice a price to pay." - Strongarm

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." ---Patrick Henry, 1788

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...Because it is the quality that guarantees all others" - Winston S. Churchill

"The American Republic is finished when the Congress realizes that it can bribe the people with the peoples money" - De Touqueville

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms... The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -Thomas Jefferson

Read everything, listen to everybody, believe nothing until you can prove it with your own research." – Bill Cooper

"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 worst. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight: nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety: is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions and blood of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry.  An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. -- Robert Heinlein

"Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." - Charles Krauthammer, columnist, Washington Post, April 5, 1996

"It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate." - John Paul Jones, 1775

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. - Thomas Sowell

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning... Power concedes nothing without demand. - Frederick Douglass

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress - Fredrick Douglass, 1857.

"It's possible to screw up the rest of your life with one stupid act."

"Learn as if you are going to live forever, live as if you are going to die tomorrow. "

"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, and brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." - Mark Twain

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." - Adolf Hitler, 1935

''Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." - Sarah Brady, Chair Handgun Control, Inc.

Do we have a Bill of Rights or A Bill of Needs???

Why do people say things like we don’t need those evil "assault rifles".   It was my understanding that it was a Bill of Rights!  It has nothing at all to do with needs or we would all have cars that don’t go over 75 MPH.

"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."  - Col. Davy Crockett

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis (1952)

"Three boxes are important: soapbox, ballot box & cartridge box."  

Blessed are they who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

“We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn in this life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing. And a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” - Attributed to Petronius Arbiter, Roman hedonist, about 60 A.D. (My how little things change in 2000 years!)

"Only a coward supports gun control. You know how to stop carjacking?  Shoot the carjacker.  If someone is going to kill me for my Buick, I'm gonna shoot until I'm out of ammo - and then I'll call 911." - Ted Nugent, People Magazine, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 5, 1994

Pacifists want all the benefits provided by those who fight for them, peace and the freedom to preach and practice pacifism but they aren't willing to shoulder the burden of protecting those things themselves.

Liberals acquire and maintain power by making people dependent on them for the very basic necessities of life, and then claiming that the "other guy" is going to take those things away. - Alexander Tyler.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay--and claims a halo for his dishonesty." - Robert A. Heinlein

Pacifists claim they abhore violence, and would never practice it. However, the same pacifists are dread to live under a totalitarian regime. They don't want to be subjugated, but they don't want to fight. The want to show up on payday but not put in any of the work needed to get the check.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Winston Churchill

A conservative may say "no" but when the chips are down he does what is right and tries to help.
A liberal makes a big fuss about saying "yes", telling in great details all the wonderful things he will do for you, but when TSHTF he is nowhere to be seen.

A liberal pacifist is a freeloader who thinks that it's beneath his/her dignity to personally defend themselves or their family, but is an "obligation" for those who choose to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas, former leader of the Socialist Party in the United States

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be against law-abiding citizens carrying concealed handguns is literally encouraging and assisting evil to have the upper hand. How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law abiding people to be defenseless and helpless. - Ted Nugent

Money is the root of all good. It is the result and symbol of honor, production, effort & intelligence. – Ayn Rand

No man has any right to anything which has to come from the sweat of another's brow. – Ayn Rand

If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack.  - Colonel Jeff Cooper

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights—the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery—hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - P.J. O'Rourke

Liberalism is all about "equality of outcome" whereas conservatism/libertarianism are about "equality of opportunity". Equality of outcome always requires lowering everyone to the lowest common denominator. – author unknown

"A lion was very much in love with a woodman's daughter. The fair maid referred him to her father and the lion applied for the girl. The father replied: "Your teeth are too long." So the lion went to a dentist and had them extracted. Returning, he asked for his bride. "No," said the woodsman, "your claws are too long." Going back to the dentist he had them drawn. Then he returned to claim his bride, and the woodsman, seeing that he was unarmed, beat out his brains."

"If you're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?"

Sheeple - noun. People who are meek, easily persuaded, and tend to follow the crowd (sheep + people).
Sheeple say, "The government should do something about this!" when an hour of their own hard work could do more than an army of feds could ever hope to.

Sheeple say, "The government knows what is best for me. Even if it does override my rights as a citizen, the good of the many outweighs the good of the few." (Unless the "few" happen to be in congress.)

Sheeple think... No, wait.. Sheeple make an effort not to think. Sheeple feel. Logic, reason, cause and effect, consequence and forethought do not factor into the way sheeple operate. If it feels good, do it. If it feels bad, the government should have kept me from doing it in the first place.

Sheeple feel that you should embrace the way they live. Sheeple feel that you should also embrace living the way they think you should live.

Sheeple take what freedoms they have for granted. The fact that they didn't grow-up speaking German or Japanese or Russian doesn't present itself on their radar screen. America just "is" because we're so cool.

Sheeple know that taxes are good, especially if it is the rich who are getting taxed. Rich people just have too much money, and they should be helping people with it. Not enjoying the fruits of their own labor.

Sheeple "know" that: the cops will save them from the guy holding their eight-inch chef knife, even if it is 3am and their phone is sitting on the dresser... Behind him.

Sheeple will bunch up by the exit doors of any commercial building, waiting patiently for their turn to leave through the only door that is currently open. Never mind the fact that there are two sets of double doors with panic bars sitting unused. "They must be closed for a reason!"
Sheeple believe the evening news.
Sheeple believe that celebrity=intellect.
Sheeple like big cities because they are "Cultural Centers".
Sheeple don't mind roadblocks, strip searches, full-body x-ray machines or metal detectors, but heaven forbid any profiling should occur! Because sheeple know that everyone could be guilty of something.
Sheeple have come to understand that pornography is normal, but a bare-but toddler playing in a kiddy pool is criminal.
Sheeple hate home schooling because it doesn't properly indoctrinate, er, um, "acclimate" a child to society. Plus the fact! Who will teach those seven-year-olds how to use a condom! (Um... The seven year-olds father will. When he gets engaged.)
Sheeple will stop their car in the middle of an interstate to keep from hitting a duck that doesn't have the common sense to fly over the pavement. The fact (and suicidal danger) that their Geo Metro can stop twice as fast as the Suburban behind them doesn't override the need to protect our ecological diversity.
Sheeple gag at the thought of a mom breast-feeding her infant in public. But a thirteen year-old girl dressed like a prostitute is "chic" and "stylish".
Sheeple believe in the right to free speech, but avoid the right to thought. Your right to free speech, however, is free to be constrained by the sheeple if it contradicts their argument, or, if it offends them.
Sheeple know that university graduates are smarter than journeyman craftsmen.
Sheeple won't look you in the eye.
Sheeple don't understand the difference between movies and reality.
Lastly…

Sheeple willingly pay $3.50 for a cup of coffee and $2.50 for a finger size chocolate bar, but they scream about gasoline prices that go above $1.79 a gallon.
Sheeple depend on others for sustinance, shelter and protection.
Hence...Parasites who willingly do the bidding of politicians and other criminals.
Sheeple are members of the "herd" rather than "Individuals".  They put state and community ahead of their family or themselves.


Common Sense:  
That fact that a given sensibility is held by a large enough section of the population to call it common, does not magically imbue that "sense" with any measure of goodness or appropriateness or usefulness.  The liberal left likes to talk about "diversity".  Interesting word.  Most people have no problem with people of any particular culture, however variety is not as inherently valuable as the left likes to assert. People should be judged by the content of their character and the nature of their accomplishments, not by the fact that they add an exotic flavor to the office.  By focusing on diversity, we are essentially told to stop looking at character and ability and competency. Implicit in the decree is the ridiculous notion that "all cultures are equally valuable" from which we are supposed to glean "all ideas about how something should be done" are equally valuable.  This is actually a perversion of the very American notion that "all men are created equal". Certainly we are not equally intelligent, equally strong, equally healthy or equally wealthy. However, we are all equally deserving of liberty and of equal protection under the law that is, until we make ourselves unequal by becoming violent or by attacking the rights of others. We all deserve equal consideration until such time as accomplishment, ability and other qualifications demand that we discriminate against those who are less qualified.  This enrages the left who misconstrue equality of opportunity as equality of outcome and seek to attack the very fabric of reality in a futile attempt to equalize outcomes.  "Common Sense" is a code word used to lend credibility and a sense of normalcy to ideas that cannot withstand the scrutiny of those with "good sense".

The left always judges these ideas, not by the effect they have on reality (reality is always an uncomfortable topic with them) - rather, these ideas are judged by their intended effect.  As long as the law is passed with the intent of making us safer, or keeping kids off drugs, or guns off the street, then it is a good law. Should someone dare question the effectiveness of their project or policy, the mantra goes out "Common Sense" this, "Common Sense" that. Their opposition is never opposed to their political philosophy - no - the opposition is opposed to "Common Sense ideas about Social Security or taxes".  If you took a poll of the American people, I believe that you could get between 95% and 100% of the population to come out as being "in favor of good things" and also "opposed to bad things". The sum of our disagreements have to do with defining what is "good" and what is "bad". Most people understand this intuitively.  

So - who defines "common sense"? The Brady Bunch will tell you that "common sense" dictates that people should not carry weapons because more people could be shot.
Others would say that, no, "common sense" tells us that criminals will be more apprehensive about attacking people if they are afraid they may be shot.

Common sense says we should all drive smaller vehicles because SUVs pollute, and the pollution damages the ozone layer and more people will die of skin cancer and the environment will be damaged.
Others will say that lighter, more efficient cars will make more people die in car accidents and that the exotic materials used to make cars lighter will take more energy and also release more pollution into the environment.

Common sense tells us that nuclear weapons are an accident waiting to happen and that as long as we have nukes, other countries will feel the need to have them too.
Others will say that we need nukes to act as a deterrent to other countries and that giving them up will actually make the world less safe.

Common sense tells us that those who make more money are more able to pay taxes and should carry a disproportionate tax burden compared to those who make less.
Others will say that taxing wealth is counter productive and that wealth should be encouraged so that more people create business and jobs which, in turn, generates more tax revenue.

People look at the world through their own value system - it is unavoidable. The problem is that many people are so unintuitive that they do not realize that their value system may not be shared by others and that they may not be factoring in "unintended consequences" when they make policy. They just assume that because something makes sense to them, that it is "common sense".


Liberal Democrat politicians tend to view poor people and children as a crop to be raised on welfare so they will continue to vote as Democrats.

"...Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason."
Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter from 1995, EVANGELIUM VITAE

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference—they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. George Washington, Speech to Congress; January 7, 1790

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.   -- Thomas Sowell

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
-- Ayn Rand

Something for the kids:

Rule No. 1:   Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2:   The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3:   Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4:   If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5:   Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6:   It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule No. 7:   Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8:   Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)

Rule No. 9:   Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10:   Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.

Rule No. 11:   Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule No. 12:   Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13:   You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14:   Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.


"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." -- 'Atlas Shrugged' 1957  Ayn Rand

Sig line......

"It is a poor parent who tries to childproof the world, instead of world proofing the child."

Quoted:         Sorry guys, I know I have been "badgering" (That was for jbowles) you a lot about favorite pics and  blah, blah, blah. But, again, I am making another page for my website and I would like to see everyones favorite quotes. Make them funny, serious, heartfelt, anyway you like it. And the subject of the quote can be almost anything: duty, honor, courage, love, sadness, fear, etc. So... SADDLE UP AND GET 'ER DONE!! ---------- "Over the years, America has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders.The only amount of land we have ever asked for is enough to bury those that did not return." - Colin Powell

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PENGUIN KNIFE FIGHTS: Get ready for the New World Order... BADGER STYLE!!!

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New one today by the Instapundit, University of Tenn. law professor Glenn Reynolds:

Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

Flamesuit ON!

If it doesn't fit..... FORCE IT!!!! (Applies to almost everthing!)

"Gigity Gigity Gigity...... Alllllright" - (Quagmire)

"My best friend is giving me a M-16" - Napalm133 (or something like that)

"fast...... real fast, like turkey sh!t through a tin horn" (My hillbilly neighbor talking about his car)

"I am so hungry I could eat the ass end off a skunk" (The hillbilliy's wife)

"God created man, and Sam Colt made men equal" (?) cool though.

"ASS-U-ME" (self explainatory)

"Something smells rotten in the state of Denmark" Hamlet's buddy, whats his name?

"Quid pro Quo, Baby' (me talking to GF)

"One in the barrel is worth two in the bush"

"One Bush is worth two Kerrys in a barrel"






"One grain of rice can tip the scale" (?) just makes sense

"Game over dude, game over"

Alien 2

Here a couple of my favorites:

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on th gospel of Jesus christ.  For this very reson peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
    Patrick Henry 1765

"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 prosperity forget that ye were our country men."
   Samuel Adams 1776

These men are true men of principle.

I am hurt but not yet slain, I will lie me down and bleed awhile, then rise
and fight again.

---Saint Barton's Ode---

A beer in the hand is worth to in the refridgerator.

"If I'm gonna get my ass blown off for a word....then my word is Pooooooontane" - Full Metal Jacket

Freedom is not a commodity which is "given" to the enslaved upon demand. It is a precious reward, the shining trophy of struggle and sacrafice.-Kwame Nkrumah.

Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
- Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth... could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio...
-Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838

We slipped a note...under the door into the Pentagon and said, 'Look, let us go up there...and burn down five of the biggest towns in North Korea -- and they're not very big -- and that ought to stop it.' Well, the answer to that was four or five screams -- 'You'll kill a lot of noncombatants!' -- and 'It's too horrible!' Yet over a period of three years or so...we burned down every town in North Korea and South Korea, too....Now, over a period of three years this is palatable, but to kill a few people to stop this from happening -- a lot of people can't stomach it.
--Former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay  

I have neither the time, nor the inclination, to diferentiate between the unfortunate and the incompetant.  There is no room for error in SAC.
- atributed to Curtis LeMay

"The second amendment isn't about duck hunting any more than the first amendment is about scrabble." Henry Bowman

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
-- from "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.

"They can eat a cold bowl of fuck if they don't like it."—Civilian contractor in Iraq.

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles (430 B.C.)

"The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

What do you think of yourself?  What do you think of the world?...These are the the questions with which all must deal as it seems good to them.  They are riddles of the Sphinx, and in some way or other we must deal with them...In all important transactions of life we have to take a leap in the dark...If we decide to leave the riddles unanswered, that is a choice; if we waver in our answer, that, too is a choice:  but whatever choice we make, we make it at our peril.  If a man chooses to turn his back altogether on God and the future, no one can prevent him; no one can show beyond a reasonable doubt that he is mistaken.  If a man thinks otherwhise and acts as he thinks, I do not see that anyone can prove that he is mistaken.  Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him.  We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist, through which we get glimpses now and then of paths, which may be deceptive.  If we stand still, we shall be frozen to death.  If we take the wrong road, we shall be dashed to pieces.  We do not certainly know whether there is any right one.  What must we do?  "Be strong and of good courage."  Act for the best, and take what comes...If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.---Fitz-James Stephens.

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
 

Christopher Morley (American writer and editor 1890-1957)

“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.’” —Ronald Reagan -October 27, 1964

Son there are only 2 things that fall out of the sky. Birdshit and idiots. Which one are you?

We say:
Two things fall out of the sky, trouble and bird shit.
CHICKENSHIT STAYS ON THE GROUND!

30 cal out.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin.

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."  Abraham Lincoln

When i was a kid, i used to try to help my brother work on cars or whatever (typical kid, wanting to help, but only getting in the way) he'd tell me:

"I'm fucking this donkey... You just hold the tail!"

Quoted: Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. -- from "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein

Dang, I gotta find another Heinlein book to read now.

Quoted: Quoted: Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. -- from "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein Dang, I gotta find another Heinlein book to read now.

If you read that one, be prepared for orgies, arguments as to why incest is ok, and a guy having sex with his mother.

I'll never forget a quote that a friend of mine spewed forth when his best friend came out of the closet...

"I don't give a damn if ya fuck cats on your kitchen table, just as long as I don't start growing fur. Don't worry.. I still respect ya"


UpstateNYer

Quoted: Hmmm... along the lines of what I was thinking... but what about some more eloquent quotes... like by Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Caesar... lol...

"He stood alone against the vices of a degenerate state that was sinking to destruction beneath its very weight. He stayed the fall of the republic to the utmost that one man could do to draw it back, until he was at last himself withdrawn, and shared in that fate he had so long averted. The two whom heaven willed could never separate were blotted out together, for Cato did not survive freedom, nor freedom Cato."

-Seneca, De Constantibus, on Cato the Younger.

"But he loves Freedom very much." Sam Johnson, "Sir, all boys love freedom, until they grow up and realize they are not so fit to govern themselves as they had imagined."

Life of Johnson

"An armed society is a polite society.  Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." -Robert Heinlein

If you wanted to give a 16-year old a set of {secular, non-religious} guideposts to live their life by, you could not do better than having them memorize the two intermissions from the book "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A Heinlein.

But enough of the serious stuff.

My contribution to the "Favorite Quotes" is:

"You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy."
Anita Blake