Posted: 5/11/2006 10:48:19 PM EDT
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Mindset quotes....I keep many different kinds of quotes, graphs, reports and such on my computer. I edited the mindset quotes out of one word document and into their own. Here they are. If it's too much to read in one sitting you should paste them into a word document. That document will be more than 15 pages long. "Even in friendly territory, a fortified camp should be set up; a general should never have to say 'I did not expect it.'" - The Emperor Maurice, The Strategikon, c. 600ad The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so~~Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942 "To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." --Ted Nugent "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~ George Washington "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 "An armed society is a polite society." ~~ Robert A. Heinlein "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~~ James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 46 at 243-244 "Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom." ~~ Charlie Reese "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." ~~ H. L. Mencken "Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution they don't like." ~~ Alan Dershowitz "Many people mistakenly see weapons as the source of crime rather than a reaction to it. This is rather like blaming your flat tire on the spare you carry in the trunk." ~~ Mickey Michels "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." ~~ Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776) "One man with courage is a majority." ~~ Thomas Jefferson "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." ~~ Thomas B. Reed (1886) The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience, or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." ~~ Samuel Adams, Massachusetts’ U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788 "How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless." ~~ Ted Nugent "The sheeping of America is nearly complete." ~~ Ted Nugent "You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don’t get caught exercising them." ~~ Terry Mitchell; Executive Editor, The Revolutionary Toker "Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol." ~~ Lori Broadhead "You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you'll find me in a pile of brass."~~ Tpr. M. Padgett I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. ~~SUSAN B. ANTHONY "When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you"~~Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince" "The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, "The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed." And they wonder why we're a bit testy"~~-editor , KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001 "Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."~~Nikita Khrushchev "All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person."~~Vladimir Lenin "There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual."~~ Benito Mussolini "The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual"~~Adolph Hitler "At a time when our entire country is banding together and facing down individualism, the Patriots set a wonderful example, showing us all what is possible when we work together, believe in each other, and sacrifice for the greater good."~~Ted Kennedy "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."~~Hillary Clinton, 1993 "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -- John Adams "Men may die, but the fabrics of our free institutions remain unshaken." -- Chester Arthur "A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil." -- Grover Cleveland, echoing Toqcueville "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Dwight Eisenhower "Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences." -- Dwight Eisenhower on the "Domino Theory" "It is not strange... to mistake change for progress." -- Millard Fillmore "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." -- Ulysses S. Grant "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." -- Herbert Hoover "Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error." -- Andrew Jackson "To the victors belong the spoils." -- Andrew Jackson "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man". -- Thomas Jefferson "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves". -- Thomas Jefferson "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson denouncing slavery "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." -- John F. Kennedy "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!" -- Abe Lincoln "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison "The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." -- Richard Nixon "We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them -- this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God." -- Ronald Reagan during a speech about the Challenger disaster "The only thing to fear is fear itself." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far." -- Teddy Roosevelt "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." -- Teddy Roosevelt "It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe". -- Zachary Taylor "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry Truman "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." -- Martin Van Buren "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." -- George Washington "To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." -- George Washington "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." -- Woodrow Wilson "Before it was about hearts and minds, now it's about two in the heart and one in the mind."-PFC Chris Ferguson, 2d Bn 4th Mar "Being a Christian doesn't require you to be a doormat. Jesus said turn the other cheek, but he didn't tell you what to do after they hit that one as well." "A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give." - Ida B. Wells, 1892. Nobel laureate John Steinbeck wrote: "And we may be thankful that frightened civil authorities and specific ladies clubs have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. For one does not really learn to shoot a rifle or machine gun in a few weeks . . . luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights—the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them." (Bombs Away, The Story of a Bomber Team From WWII, John Steinbeck, Paragon House, 1990) "Freedom is not purchased with gold, but with iron." --Ancient Spartans or "The Spartans do not ask how many the enemy number, but where they are." --Agis of Sparta, 415 B.C. "....in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities." -Theodore Roosevelt “To me, CQB is an animal alone. Carl Cestari and his crew have some very good thoughts on the nature of it, but I think they call it CQC. The basic philospohy is much like that of Yeager's monkey stomping - you do what you have to to win. And winning means the loser is dead. The key word for me in CQB is "battle" - which implies to me to the death. There is no surrendering in CQB - by the time the BG drops his weapon or raises is hands to surrender - he will have 3-4 pairs of double taps from crotch to eyeball. If he wanted to surrender, he should have done it before the breach. Its not about control, its about complete domination - again, somebody has to die. Same thing with CQC - combat. Somebody said on the thread about the Taser something along the lines of "Our objective is to control the situation, apprehend the suspect, prevent loss..." Those kinds of things. In the military, the saying goes "To close with and destroy the enemy." So there are two entirely different objectives. If you look at it like a big picture - those two are the political objectives. The strategies are to either to kill only if no other choice exists or to kill as a first and only choice. The tactics can cross over and will, but the objectives and the strategies will forever remain apart. And that is a good thing. On the same thread the comment was made "We often see the guy again we arrested yesterday." That is another difference with the military - I ain't doin' that. I've never had to shoot the same guy on different days. I have also heard that a coperator op is considered successful if nobody gets hurt, the suspect stands trial and is convicted. A military op (except recon) ain't successful unless somebody dies - the BG hopefully.” ~~~sneaky sf dude, via Lightfighter.net |
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"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion" -Morihei Ueshiba If you will not fight when you can easily win, without bloodshed, and if you still will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly, you may well come to the moment when you will have no choice but to fight with the odds against you, and you have only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, simply because it is better to perish as warriors than to live as slaves." -Winston Churchill "Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide." --Field Marshall Erwin Rommel A true Warrior does not seek war, nor does he wish to do battle. He merely believes that it is honorable to cling to a worthy cause. It is noble to reach out to those who are weaker than himself and it is valiant to believe that many things are worth giving up everything for. - Phil Messina "When young men seek to be like you, when lazy men resent you, when powerful men look over their shoulder at you, when cowardly men plot behind your back, when corrupt men wish you were gone and evil men want you dead . . . Only then will you have done your share." -----Phil Messina It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. ~ John F. Kennedy ~ "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” --Thomas Sowell “No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-coming.” --Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger “The great questions of the day will be decided not by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.” --Otto von Bismarck "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away.” Phillip K. Dick Take arrows in your forehead, but never in your back. - Samurai maxim "My right flank has collapsed. My center has fallen. Situation excellent. I am attacking" -Ferdinand Foch "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 "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." -- Marcus Aelius Aurelius Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill "When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. "The code of the warrior class has room for fallibility... there is no room for a lack of integrity or for those who place self before duty or self before comrades or self before country. Careerism is a the one great sin... If you achieve success over the bodies or the careers of your comrades, you have served your nation poorly and you have violated the code of the warrior class." Gen John Vesey Jr. If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) "When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way." Morihei Ueshiba Technique is never the end of a fighting art – Musashi The willingness to win,though important, is not as important as the willingness to prepare to win. bumper sticker Of every One-Hundred men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters... We are lucky to have them...They make the battle, Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior...and He will bring the others back. -Hericletus c. 500 B.C. "Thus nobly did the whole body of Lacedaemonians and Thespians behave; but nevertheless one man is said to have distinguished himself above all the rest, to wit, Dieneces the Spartan. A speech which he made before the Greeks enraged the Medes, remains on record. One of the Trachinians told him, “Such was the number of barbarians, that when they shot forth their arrows the sun would be darkened by their multitude.” Dieneces, not at all frightened at these words, but making light of the Median numbers, answered, “Our Trachinian friend brings us excellent tidings. If the Medes darken the sun, we shall have our fight in the shade.” Other sayings too of a like nature are reported to have been left on record by this same person." -- Herodotus "...In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect." --Shakespeare " Ain't logical. Cuttin' on his own face, rapin' and murdering - Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid. But these Reavers... last ten years they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where's that get fun? " - Jayne Cobb "The God of War hates those who hesitate." - Euripides "We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist." - SEAL Team Six Officer "We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here." - Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force "It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep." - Italian proverb "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men." - Miyamoto Musashi I see many soldiers. Could I but see as many warriors. --Nietzsche "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) "Never do your enemy a minor injury." --Machiavelli "The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms." --Carl von Clausewitz Life is a bad tactical position --Anon Six hundred misses a minute are not firepower. One hit - that's firepower. …Peter R. Senich Limited War Sniping "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." … Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." Churchill's remark after Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich pact with Hitler. Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der abgrund auch in dich hinein. [He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.] - Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Bose IV 146 The essence of life is struggle, and its goal is domination. There are higher goals and deeper meanings, but they exist only within the mind of man. The reality of life is war. - Lovret |
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We will either find a way, or make one. - Hannibal The only place to find success without hard work is in the dictionary. "I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." D. H. Lawrence "Proper planning prevents piss poor performance." Robert Duvall, in "Killer Elite" "Stay low, move slow." The Master Chief (Hershell B. Davis "Protect the Innocent, Convince the Undecided, Kill the Rest" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. The man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by better men than himself. - John Stewart Mill The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. --Teddy Roosevelt Forgive your enemies, but never forget their name. --JFK The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. .....Thucydides.... Fate is in Heaven, the armor is on the breast, success is with the legs. Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory, and you will come home with no wounds whatever. Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. When you leave the house determined not to see it again you will come home safely; when you have any thought of returning you will not return. You may not be in the wrong to think that the world is always subject to change, but the warrior must not entertain this way of thinking, for his fate is always determined. Uesugi Kenshin (1530-1578) "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed... every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown Rum, sodomy, and the lash..... ~~M1 Tanker at Lightfighter "You guys don't get PTSD, you GIVE it.. You're carriers. Some jihadi is going to be waking up with a cold sweat 30 years from now having nightmares about YOU."- LTC Grossman Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental. - John Steinbeck "Blessed be the Lord my rock who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle” - Psalm 144:1 I am Warrior. Every day that I open my eyes, I must ask myself, “Is today the day?” When that day comes, as it must, I must say “Today is the day. I shall dominate and destroy those who would murder the innocent, though I perish”. I am Warrior. Auth unknown "If they break through and over run us, put grenades around your hole. Lay them on the parapet and get your head below ground. Lie on your back in the hole. Spray bullets into their faces. If we do our job, they won't get that far." -Rick Rescorla "When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence". Take joyfully all that is brought upon you. For as gold is tried by fire, so are good men in the furnace of adversity. Carved in 12" letters in the masonry around the top of the inmate dining room at the US Penitentiary, Terre Haute. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day: then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. From Shakespeare's Henry V, before the battle of Aigencourt: Invictus by William E Henley OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. badass squid named the Mad Turk had one for me: "Never think about what the other guy is going to do to you.. 'Cause if you're worried about what he's going to do to you, and he's worried about what he's going to do to you, that's two people working towards a common goal.." "We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of Overwhelming Power on the other." George C. Marshall I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. --J.R.R.Tolkien, The Two Towers "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Bene Gesserit Litany against Fear. "Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves." - Knights Hospitaler, 1185 AD "Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, do no wrong. That is your oath.." - Knights' oath. Excerpt from the movie, Kingdom of Heaven.. "There is a word that best describes the way to win a battle. I use the word battle because that is usually a fight (with knife , gun or whatever) to the death. Can any one tell me that word? Anyone? Anyone? Beuler? Anyone? Juggernaut. The short definition of Juggernaut is; An irresistible overwhelming power or force. There is no escape; there is no defense. I am killing you now. That is how it has to be. Initiative is everything." -Mick Strider Another good Mick quote: "That is the fact that employment is actually part of a system that keeps the swarming masses in order. Think about how many people there are on the earth. Now think about what your day would be like if instead of going to work, they were all fighting over all of that food that would be lying around. Then of course the people who were stronger and nastier would show up and take control of the food. Your last thought as you were being ass raped to death would be…. “I sure do wish this guy had a job…..damn im hungry….” We all dream of a world of sunshine happiness and peace. Half of the people think it sounds like a wonderful world to live in. The other half think it sounds like a wonderful world to pillage. Sorry…my hippy happiness is a bit jaded by the scars…" -Mick Strider "Think of it like this: You can buy a bunch of smut mags…rent two years worth of video…but at the end of the day…you still don’t know how to fuck. Sure you get the basic idea. But that only gets you in trouble. Especially if your not fucking but fighting." -Mick Strider War is like love, it always finds a way. _____________ Bertolt Brecht |
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. __________________ Eisenhower "Ability is nothing without opportunity." Napoleon “There are no substitutes for violence of action and volume of fire. Move forward and shoot, always forward and shooting. The enemy will choose to fight and die or live and run either way move forward and shoot and he will fear you absolutely.” - COL Otto Skorzeny As Marines, our message to our foes has essentially always been the same, "We own this side of the street! Threaten my country or our allies and we will come over to your side of the street, burn your hut down, then whisper in your ear, "Can you hear me now?"..... And then secure your heartbeat. -An unnamed Marine The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving. Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885) We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari The warrior's intention should be simply to grasp his sword and to die. - Kiyomasa Kato (1562-1611) To fight and conquer in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy with no fight at all, that's the highest skill. - Sun Tsu Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Miyamoto Musashi "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - General George Washington "Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result." --Tien T'ai One mind, any weapon - Hunter B. Armstrong "Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it." When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side. - Wu Tsu The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle. Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself - Shinkage School of Swordsmanship St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls. Amen. Psalm 91 "Though a thousand fall at my side, though ten thousand are dying around me, the evil will not touch me. I will see how the wicked are punished, but I will not share it." Psalm 18:34-39... “He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms...I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle...” Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, {And} my fingers for battle Deu 32:41-42 - If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me. I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword will devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired leaders of the enemy.' "We will grease the treads of our tanks with our enemies guts" Gen. Patton "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. From Julius Ceaser by William Shakespeare" I firmly belive that any man's finest hour --- his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle --- victorious" - Vince Lombardi "Focus on your one purpose" "The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him." "Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!" --Bruce Lee "Anybody who speaks badly of revenge ain't never lost nothing important" --James Crumley "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." --Bruce Lee "When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." -Chief Tecumseh "Bad people, there are. Hate you, they do. Kill you, they will. Watch out, you'd better!" -- Shona refrain via Col.Cooper "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." -- Rev. Billy Graham "He who goes unarmed in paradise had better be sure that's where he is!" -- James Thurber One day people are going to wake up to the fact that the criminal justice system has nothing do do [sic] with either criminals or justice, but is actually just a gigantic self licking ice cream cone. Patrick A. Rogers, USMC (Ret.) “The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.” John Fisher, Royal Navy |
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The combination is....just awesome. However I meant to edit those ones out. They belong in the political list, not the mindset one. |
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Some, not all. That kinda bugs me, but I just don't have time to track them all down. The US president quotes ones are all good to go, as are the Phil Messina quotes and the ones I attributed to members of other forums. A lot of the others too, I recognize/got from good sources. |
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I would not care if they took away every firearm ever made,just as long as the playing field is World wide! You would be supprissed how fast they would come back,after anyone ever saw a war carried out with machettes,golf clubs,ballbatts,sharp sticks and such! Bob 
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