[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Kicka$$ quotes (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/30/2009 8:10:21 AM EDT
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin to slit throats."
I'm just looking for more awesome quotes. Anything regarding liberty, free trade, self-sufficiency, RKTB, etc. I like to use them on my Facebook page to incite discussion with anyleft leaning morons who might be on there. Plus it would just be cool to have a nice collection to pull from. Also, who did I quote above? |
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin to slit throats." I'm just looking for more awesome quotes. Anything regarding liberty, free trade, self-sufficiency, RKTB, etc. I like to use them on my Facebook page to incite discussion with anyleft leaning morons who might be on there. Plus it would just be cool to have a nice collection to pull from. Also, who did I quote above? Mencken. He's pretty popular around here. |
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
-Sir Winston Churchill "Pacifism is objectively pro fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me." -George Orwell |
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"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 one; one of them is a Warrior….And he will bring the others back.”
- Heraclitus (Circa 500 B.C.) |
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Quoted: Quoted: "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin to slit throats." I'm just looking for more awesome quotes. Anything regarding liberty, free trade, self-sufficiency, RKTB, etc. I like to use them on my Facebook page to incite discussion with anyleft leaning morons who might be on there. Plus it would just be cool to have a nice collection to pull from. Also, who did I quote above? Mencken. He's pretty popular around here. Another great one from him- "I never vote for anyone, only against." |
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Quotes
Aristotle: "Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society" “From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” -Origin probably unverified, commonly attributed to Alexander Tytler. "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." –– Benjamin Franklin "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. " - Thomas Jefferson "The nation will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." –– Winston Churchill "It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." -Ayn Rand "The right to life is the source of all rights––and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave." ~ Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for. That my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." -Adrian Rogers So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? -Francisco d'Anconia, Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill One of our most astute Founders, Noah Webster, wrote, "The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities. ... In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate –– look to his character." |
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Admittedly, I got most of these from other signatures here on Arfcom... but I like 'em.
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem" - Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final"-Bill Jordan "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain "There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn’t end in their massacre." - Louis L’Amour "Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!" -Unknown "VEGETARIAN...old caveman word for bad hunter." -Unknown "Hey, did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary? Seriously, go look it up." -Unknown "You kill one American, I'll carpet bomb your city with enough firepower to give the Japanese flashbacks." -Unknown "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." -Unknown "A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another persons will." -Philip Slater "Between recklessness and overcautiousness runs the narrow, uncertain ridgetop path of adventure." -Unknown "Liberals are like Slinky's - not good for anything but will bring a smile to your face when pushed down a flight of stairs." -Unknown "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - General George S. Patton Jr. "If the 1st amendment were as gutted as the 2nd, we'd only be allowed vowels by now" ––Unknown "As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, independence and enterprise to the mind." - Thomas Jefferson - 1785 "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." -Unknown "RESPECT is the understanding that youth and skill are no match for old age and treachery." -Unknown "ACCURACY… because it's never fun to be shot back at." -Unknown "The inability to distinguish between an abstract idea and material reality appears to be the mark of the American liberal." -Theo Beale "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day." Psalms 91:5 "If I got a plan for zombies, don't you think I have everything else covered?" -Unknown "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that you won't need it until they try to take it away." -Thomas Jefferson "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed." -Jesus "A pistol is something you use to fight your way back to your gun." -Unknown "We're gonna have peace & I don't care who I have to kill to get it!" - Judge Roy Bean "IF YOU SHOW UP FOR A FAIR FIGHT, YOU ARE NOT PREPARED" -Unknown "You don't negotiate with crazy. You shoot crazy in the face." -Unknown |
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You should be able to strip a man naked and throw him out with nothing on him. By the end of the day, the man should be clothed and fed. By the end of the week, he should own a horse. And by the end of a year he should own a business and have money in the bank.
- Rick Rescorla (RIP NYC, 09.11.01) Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. - Theodore Roosevelt |
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"Now gun control advocates say the phrase is clumsy and the comma separating the the state from the people is just a pause to get your breath. Strange, they can't to point out any other places where those hack framers fucked up the wording." - Penn & Teller
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) |
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Quoted: Admittedly, I got most of these from other signatures here on Arfcom... but I like 'em. "We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem" - Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final"-Bill Jordan "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain "There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn’t end in their massacre." - Louis L’Amour "Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!" -Unknown "VEGETARIAN...old caveman word for bad hunter." -Unknown "Hey, did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary? Seriously, go look it up." -Unknown "You kill one American, I'll carpet bomb your city with enough firepower to give the Japanese flashbacks." -Unknown "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." -Unknown "A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another persons will." -Philip Slater "Between recklessness and overcautiousness runs the narrow, uncertain ridgetop path of adventure." -Unknown "Liberals are like Slinky's - not good for anything but will bring a smile to your face when pushed down a flight of stairs." -Unknown "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - General George S. Patton Jr. "If the 1st amendment were as gutted as the 2nd, we'd only be allowed vowels by now" ––Unknown "As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, independence and enterprise to the mind." - Thomas Jefferson - 1785 "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." -Unknown "RESPECT is the understanding that youth and skill are no match for old age and treachery." -Unknown "ACCURACY… because it's never fun to be shot back at." -Unknown "The inability to distinguish between an abstract idea and material reality appears to be the mark of the American liberal." -Theo Beale "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day." Psalms 91:5 "If I got a plan for zombies, don't you think I have everything else covered?" -Unknown "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that you won't need it until they try to take it away." -Thomas Jefferson "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed." -Jesus "A pistol is something you use to fight your way back to your gun." -Unknown "We're gonna have peace & I don't care who I have to kill to get it!" - Judge Roy Bean "IF YOU SHOW UP FOR A FAIR FIGHT, YOU ARE NOT PREPARED" -Unknown "You don't negotiate with crazy. You shoot crazy in the face." -Unknown Homer Simpson |
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"Pretty women sell beer, ugly women sell tennis rackets. Pretty women - cars; ugly women - minivans. Pretty women make us buy beer, and ugly women make us drink beer." - Al Bundy, Married With Children Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I love Al Bundy. He was like a second father to me growing up. "Except for the day before the day I met you, this is the happiest day of my life." |
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Admittedly, I got most of these from other signatures here on Arfcom... but I like 'em. "Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!" -Unknown One of my favorites, actually uttered by Krusty the Klown (in the episode The Cartridge Family). (No, I'm not that big of a Simpson's nerd...had to google it) |
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Vegetables aren’t food, they’re what food eats.
Is that your face, or did your neck throw up? Drink 'till she's cute, but stop before the wedding Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines I'm not cheap, but I am on special this week I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol I intend to live forever - so far, so good If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough! Mental backup in progress - Do Not Disturb! Mind Like A Steel Trap - Rusty And Illegal In 37 States Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. Televangelists: The Pro Wrestlers of religion. The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes. When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. If I worked as much as others, I would do as little as they. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... 24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ...coincidence? If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. Money can't buy happiness... but it sure makes misery easier to live with. I got a sweater for Christmas... I really wanted a screamer or a moaner. If flying is so safe... why do they call the airport the "terminal"? I don't approve of political jokes... I've seen too many of them get elected. The most precious thing we have is life... yet it has absolutely no trade-in value. There are two sides to every divorce... Yours and sh*thead's. If life deals you lemons, make lemonade... if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at bowling alleys. I am a nobody... nobody is perfect... and therefore I am perfect. I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been giving me lately! Everyday... I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. Two peanuts were walking down the street.... one was a salted. That Claudia Schiffer must be a genius... because I told a friend my plan to attain world peace, and he told me I have "Schiffer Brains." No one ever says "It's only a game!" when their team is winning. Mid-life is when you go to the doctor and you realize you are now so old, you have to pay someone to look at you naked. Mid-life has hit you when you stand naked in front of a mirror and can see your rear end without turning around. If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway? Welcome To Sh*t Creek... Sorry, We're Out of Paddles! How come we choose from just two people for president and 50 for Miss America? Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling well? How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on. Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My wife tells that to my friends... who most of 'em smoke cigars, etc.) Marriage changes passion... suddenly you're in bed with a relative. Why is it that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked? "Old" is when the porn movie you bring home is "Debby Does Dialysis." The next time you feel like complaining... remember... Your garbage disposal probably eats better than fifty percent of the people in this world. Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled. Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom's wise words.... "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been." Losing faith in humanity.... One person at a time. The last thing I want to do is hurt you....But it's still on the list. [T]he aggressor in a war (that is, he who begins it), is not the first who uses force, but the first who renders force necessary. - Henry Hallam |
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Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood): "You know, it seems like whenever I get to liking someone, they ain't around for too long."
Chief Dan George: "I've also noticed that whenever you get to disliking someone, they're not around too long either." Young confederate soldier: "You reckon we ought to bury them guys?" Josey Wales: "The hell with them guys. Birds gotta eat too. Just like worms." Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reasons. Politics is the second oldest profession. It has a number of similarities to the first. "Suppose you were an idiot, suppose you were a member of congress, but I repeat myself....." Mark Twain |
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Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in the practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil - experience.
Analysis and observation, theory and experience must never disdain or exclude each other; on the contrary, they support each other. -Carl Von Clausewitz |
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. From this day to the ending of the world, we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." –– Edmund Burke "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his." –– General Patton "All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood." –– General Patton "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." –– General Patton "Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement." –– Winston Churchill "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." –– Winston Churchill "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." –– Winston Churchill "If you are going through hell, keep going." –– Winston Churchill "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." –– Winston Churchill "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" –– Winston Churchill "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." –– Winston Churchill "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." –– Thomas Jefferson "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." –– Thomas Jefferson "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." –– Thomas Jefferson "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." –– Thomas Jefferson "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." –– Thomas Jefferson "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 tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." –– Thomas Jefferson |
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LIBERAL: SOMEONE WHO KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE GOD WENT WRONG
"It is an iron rule of politics that no one in government is ever compassionate with their own money." Stephen Moore, Cato Institute “If you can't trust a man's word, it doesn't help much to get it in writing.” Harry S Truman "It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by the forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of the father." - Thomas Jefferson "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” - Aristotle "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - George Bernard Shaw Congress would take 30 days to make instant coffee. “As each political party accuses the other of corruption, here's the rule of thumb: believe every word.” - Lew Rockwell “The essence of all slavery consists in taking the produce of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded on ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live on.” - Leo Tolstoy, 1891 Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedoms. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves. William Pitt, the younger |
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“THE TEST OF A true reform is that even a small degree of it helps. If a free market produces great prosperity, for example, then even a partially free market will alleviate poverty. The communists discovered this very early, with Lenin’s New Economic Policy, which allowed the profit motive to operate on a short leash, thereby ending the famine that had come in with socialism. The Soviet Union lasted as long as it did thanks to marginal economic liberalization: Privately owned farm plots and discreet toleration of the black market were responsible for much of the actual (though unrecorded) Soviet GNP.
“In the same way, even partial gun control should have lowered the homicide rate in Washington. True, it’s easy to buy guns in Virginia and bring them into the District. That’s what the local politicians always use as their excuse for the District’s mayhem. But if gun control were a good idea, Washington would still have a lower murder rate than Virginia, or even a lower rate than Washington used to have. “On the evidence, gun control doesn’t just fail, in the sense of not achieving its goal. It backfires. It defeats its own purpose. By all appearances, it actually adds to the crime rate. Los Angeles is hundreds of miles from any border, yet it’s one of our most violent cities, despite tough gun control laws - or because of them. “It would be one thing if gun control could be shown to have been successful somewhere. Anywhere. The real question, though, is whether, like communism, it can ever be imposed without making things even worse than they were before. “Like Communism, gun control appeals to people for whom control is less a means than an end in itself. Jean-Francois Revel once observed that while other regimes were judged by their records, communism was perennially judged by its promises. “THAT’S NO LONGER true of communism, but it is strangely true of gun control. It has the privilege of being judged by its promises, and its sorry record isn’t held against it. For a repeat offender, it’s actually doing pretty well.” Joseph Sobran What the liberals fear is privately owned guns - not guns owned by the Government. The liberal position on privately owned guns is entirely consistent with the liberal position on all private property; there shouldn’t be any: all private property should be controlled, regulated or confiscated by the omnipotent state. The liberals have no objection to guns - only to guns they do not control. They are seeking a legal monopoly on guns ... in order to eliminate any final opposition to a socialist government. This is the purpose of the gun control lobby - not the reduction of crime, which could be easily achieved by harsher penalties for criminals - but the elimination of citizen opposition to their socialist plans. Congressman Earl Landgrebe (R-IN) The liberal can always spot the open mind: it’s the one that agrees with himself. Joseph Sobran |