Favorite quote

[ocsdor]

Here's one of my most despised quotes:

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all! - Rep. Henry Waxman (D - CA)

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[Dryden]

Here's a few more I like:

"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
Galeazzo Ciano


"Truth is with the victor- who, as you know, also controls the historians."
Rolf Hochhuth


"Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is creed of slaves."
William Pitt the Younger


"I hate people who are intolerant."
Lawrence Peter


"Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30, Buried at 60."
Nicholas Butler

 

[Sailor]

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

The Declaration Of Independence.

 

[buzzard pickins]

"Man,this place is like a cup of s**t,with the handle on the inside! VP-17 crew member Braybant Cam Rah Bay 1972.

My balonie has a first name....OSCAR MAYER

 

[dross]

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

Pull your vehicle up behind me, I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going. - PFC Martin, 82nd Airborne, to a retreating tank during the Battle of the Bulge.

 

[dross]

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

The Declaration Of Independence.

I suggest this post be deleted as advocating revolution and the violent overthrow of government.

 

[Hotdoger]

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
M. Thatcher

 

[Lex Concord]

Any quote by Lincoln praising the Constitution, for they belie the abuse it suffered at his hands under the excuse of necessity.

 

[Mgderf]

"He who steals my purse steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed!"
-William Shakespear

"There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
-Salvdor Dali

 

[DCR]

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H.L. Mencken

He has all the virtues I despise and none of the vices I admire.
-- Churchill

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with great enthusiasm. -- Clarence Darrow

 

[TopDog]

Here are just a few of my favorites, I have so many that I'm fond of:

XD - Like a Glock Only Better!

When the government fears the people you have freedom.
When the people fear the government you have slavery.

Beretta is Italian for 'malfunction'

"Sic Vis Pacem Parabellum" (If you want peace, prepare for war) Latin Quote

Rule #8: No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey.

"Dico Tibi Verum Libertas Optima rerum Nunquam servili Sub nexu vivito fili"
My Son, Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery. -- From the memorial plaque at the death-site of William Wallace

WHEN YOU PUT ON YOUR GUN LEAVE YOUR MIDDLE FINGER AT HOME

- "Molon Labe - Come and Take Them"
-- A classical expression of defiance reported by Plutarch in response to the Persian Army's demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons.

9mm...........basically .45 set to stun.

 

[Eddie]

Heinlein

Someone on here has this as their sig line. It has always been my favorite quote:

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 Heinlein

 

[Yeti]

You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.
-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, 1941

 

[Hornett]

"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money
Margaret Thatcher

 

[SavageEagle]

Idk if this is right section to post but I would like to share one of my favorite quotes. After sitting back and looking at America today I can see why Benjamin Franklin said this. Every American needs to read this and understand it! Anyways post yalls favorite quotes as well



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

I've been watching the news off and on and the main theme I keep seeing come up is "better intel" and "MORE LISTS".

More lists, being the main theme, would most likely ban us gun owners from flying and probably veterans too. You know, since we're all kooks and threats.

It's getting sickening out there.

EDIT: I just noticed this was posted before Christmas. However, your quote reminds me of the very thing happening today.

 

[JustGone]

I've been watching the news off and on and the main theme I keep seeing come up is "better intel" and "MORE LISTS".

More lists, being the main theme, would most likely ban us gun owners from flying and probably veterans too. You know, since we're all kooks and threats.

It's getting sickening out there.

EDIT: I just noticed this was posted before Christmas. However, your quote reminds me of the very thing happening today.

Oh yes, people are SOOO willing to give up their liberties for a little temporary security! In my opinion it's because we have a nation of sheep, and sheep scare and panic easily! Sheep depend on the shephard for food, security, grooming, medical attentions, and so much more!

It's very sad to see the sheeple.

 

[Gray Squirrel]

Every time I get to liken someone thay ain't around long... Josy

Every time you get to disliken someone thay ain't around either...Lone Watti

 

[indianajoe]

More than a sound-bite, but a favorite that I carry, and share when the topic of leadership comes up.

From “Tides of War: A Novel of the Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War,” by Steven Pressfield. Chapter XXIX: The Intersection of Necessity and Free Will



Three and a half years later, before Byzantium, I attended a night-long drinking bout. Someone had put the query “How does one lead free men?” “By being better than they,” Alcibiades responded at once.

The symposiasts laughed at this, even Thrasybulus and Theramenes, our generals.

“By being better,” Alcibiades continued, “and thus commanding their emulation.” He was drunk, but on him it accounted nothing, save to liberate those holdings nearest to his heart. “When I was not yet twenty, I served in the infantry. Among my mates was Socrates the son of Sophroniscus. In a fight the enemy had routed us and were swarming our position. I was terrified and loading up to flee. Yet when I beheld him, my friend with gray in his beard, plant his feet on the earth and seat his shoulder within the great bowl of his shield, a species of eros, life-will, arose within me like a tide. I discovered myself compelled, absent all prudence, to stand beside him.”

“A commander’s role is to model arete, excellence, before his men. One need not thrash them to greatness; only hold it out before them. They will be compelled by their own nature to emulate it.”

 

[rambone]

“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