Favorite quote

[Dryden]

"You will never enter a gunfight wishing you had brought less ammunition"
Clint Smith, Gun Mag.Writer and Owner of Thunder Ranch

 

[riverman67]

[FONT=&quot]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[/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm." -George Orwell [/FONT]

I love both of these

 

[rambone]

"If they were merely stupid, then the laws of probability would have dictated that at least some of their decisions would have served the country's interest."

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, referring to liberals

 

[Glockster]

"Consensus is defined as the absence of leadership."
Margaret Thatcher

"A 'moderate' is one without principles."
Rush Limbaugh

 

[Bushido Devil Dog]

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -- Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC


"All branches of the U.S. military are honorable and noble. Be proud of your service." -- God, USMC Retired

 

[kedie]

"Nuts!" General Anthony C. McAuliffe, acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Divison. 22 Dec 1944. After being asked by the Germans to surrender the division and the town of Bastogne.

 

[semperfi211]

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.
Ronald Reagan

I just heard this one and thought how fitting it was with the current government.

 

[Steve]

This will be on my headstone:

"All men die, only a few truly live."
I was one of the few.

And:

When the nurse said to James Garner in the movie "The Notebook", "Why do you continue to visit her? She doesn't even reconize you." (referring to his wife with advanced Alzhiemers). He replied, "She may not know who I am, but I know who she is."

 

[jeremy]

"Nuts!" General Anthony C. McAuliffe, acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Divison. 22 Dec 1944. After being asked by the Germans to surrender the division and the town of Bastogne.

Wasn't that the place that Patton pulled your backsides out of the fire?!

 

[kedie]

Wasn't that the place that Patton pulled your backsides out of the fire?!

Don't you mean that Patton saved the lives of thousands of Germans by separating them from the 101st?

 

[jeremy]

Growing up I was in a unique situation. I had Great Uncles who had served in either unit respectfully. It made for some very interesting discussions at the family get togethers of my youth.

 

[kedie]

I was in the 101st, and my grandpa was in the 94th ID in Pattons 3rd army. He was part of the push up from the south into the bulge. I can appreciate both sides of the argument.

 

[haldir]

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington


I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
John Bernard Books (John Wayne)

 

[Bill of Rights]

"AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

--Private Joker, Full Metal Jacket

 

[dburkhead]

"My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!" Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Oh, and:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." Thomas Jefferson et al

 

[rambone]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on 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

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
~ Benjamin Franklin

…liberty once lost is rarely recovered.
~ Mark Levin (author of “Liberty and Tyranny”)

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
~ William O. Douglas

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
~ Edmund Burke

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~James Madison

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
~ Ronald Reagan

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Let freedom never perish in your hands.
~ Joseph Addison

Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
~ William Penn

A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.
~ Benjamin Franklin

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
~ Samuel Adams

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
~ Ronald Reagan

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
~ Edmund Burke

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
~ Author Unknown

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
~ Patrick Henry

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson

Man is not free unless government is limited.
~ Ronald Reagan

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
~ George Washington

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~ Dorothy Thompson

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
~ Edmund Burke

 

[rambone]

"Anyone who eats hotdogs and respects the law, should NEVER watch either one being made."
Unknown Citizen

 

[dross]

Man’s highest joy is in victory: to conquer one’s enemies, to pursue them, to deprive them of their possessions, to make their beloved weep, to ride on their horses, and to embrace their daughters and wives. - Ghenghis Khan

It's not as easy as it looks - Joe Frazier, on boxing.

The World ends when you're dead - until then you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man ...and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. - Winston Churchill

You're not a writer, you're a killer - D.I. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket


There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. - Katherine Paterson


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston Churchill


Announcing your plans is a great way to hear God laugh. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[ocsdor]

Not sure that I have a favorite, but I'll try to list some unlisted ones:

You make sounds like you're a mean little a**-kicker... only I ain't convinced. You keep talking and I'm gonna take your head off. -Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk.

You're going to look pretty silly with that knife sticking out of your a**. -Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter

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

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein

If total government control equals safety, why are prisons so dangerous? -Unknown

Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left.
While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another,
they both march in the same direction. -Paul Proctor

How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.
-Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great 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 complacency
from complacency to apathy
from apathy to dependency
from dependency back to bondage.
- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)