Posted: 6/1/2005 10:48:12 AM EDT
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Going through some files I came across these gems, presented for your enjoyment and edification. *************************************************************** "Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay as soft as we are now. There won't be any America - because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race." LtGen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller USMC "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt "My religious belief teaches me that I am as safe in battle as I am in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready, whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, then all men would be equally brave." -Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson "The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." - President Theodore Roosevelt. “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.” - President Ronald Reagan “If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” - Thomas Paine ”If you 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.” - Samuel Adams “In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile crisis, we came to the edge of the abyss. Then, accompanied by our equally shaken adversary, we both deliberately drew back. On September 11, 2001, we saw the face of Armageddon again, but this time with an enemy that does not draw back. This time the enemy knows no reason.” - Charles Krauthammer “After the train had been captured by 150 Boers, the last four men, though completely surrounded and with no cover, continued to fire until three were killed, the fourth wounded. On the Boers asking the survivor the reason why they had not surrendered, he replied, 'Why, man, we are the Gordon Highlanders.'” - Lord Kitchener, telegram from Pretoria to Edward VII (10 August 1901) "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." --Alexis de Tocqueville "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 staying free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better man than himself." -- John Stuart Mill "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords." -- Theodore Roosevelt "Ammunition . . . The precious metal of the future." -- Unknown "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." -- Winston Churchill "Anyone who gets in a fair fight...has no tactical skills." -- Anonymous "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." -- John Wayne "Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours." -- Robert Ardrey "Fear of death will not prevent dying but it may prevent living." - Unknown "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself . . . they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." -- George Washington "If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness." -- Theodore Roosevelt "One of these days the talking will be over and the citizenry of the United States will decide whether or not to remain free." -- Dan W. Shoemaker "The pen is mightier than the sword...except in a swordfight." -- Anonymous "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be." -- Plato "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -- Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 (Ironic, eh, Eric?) "Tis true that the pen is mightier than the sword, but far more have died for want of a sword than will die for lack of a pen." -- Curtis Mohr "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 |
I like that one. 
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I met Barry Mason a few years ago. He has had contracts on his life and has stared down the barrel of a gun a couple times. The way he looks at it, nobody can do anything to him until he has fulfilled the work God has for him to do. That's faith. |
For a brief moment, I thought you wrote that you met Barry Manilow. 
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Who? |
He used to be with the Hell's Angels. He became a Christian and left the club, starting a ministry. I met him at the Myrtle Beach rally. He has a book called "Fallen Angel" that tells his story. |