Favorite quote

[Ogre]

"You can want in one hand and Sh!te in the other, and see which one gets filled up first...." unknown (but my grand parents, parents (and now me to my boy) always said it to me...)

 

[DustinG]

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution ... or have failed their purpose ... or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
Barry Goldwater

With a quote like that, how did Goldwater lose to Johnson? The only history part I have been taught about Goldwater is that he lost because everyone was scared that he was going to use the bomb.

 

[sparky241]

see my sig lines

 

[rambone]

"There is a reason why you should separate military and the police.
One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves to protect the people.
When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend to become the people."

- Commander William Adama

 

[copper]

When you do everything right no one knows you did anything at all.....

"God to Bender"

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

There is no I in team...

There may not be an I in team but there sure is a me...

Seen on a TShirt (great source of wisdom...)

There is no I in "Team"

But there _is_ a U in "Suck"!

 

[semperfi211]

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Sir Winston Churchill

 

[rambone]

‎"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[Bendrx]

It's not a quote really, as I just thought of it while reading a quote containing the vile word "democracy", but it does seem "quotable".

"Democracy, it's like letting the Zombies be in charge and they all vote for brains."

And for the record, I don't like democracy. I like Republics. I also used lots of "s to try an

Of Parties:
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." George Washington 1796

 

[rambone]

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human rights. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." - William Penn

 

[AR Maker]

Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
Ned Dolan




They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake".
Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991

 

[riverman67]

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Franklin's Contributions to the Conference on February 17 (III) Fri, Feb 17, 1775

 

[Lex Concord]

Extremism, in the defense of liberty, is not a vice. Barry Goldwater

I have always liked the quote, but had never read/seen the speech from which it came.

Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice - Wikisource

 

[Lex Concord]

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."

I was thinking the origin of this story was from the life of this gentleman, Robertson McQuilkin, though I haven't been able to verify he spoke those words, his story, and its wide dispersal could easily have been its inspiration.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pX1phIqug"]YouTube - Robert McQuilken[/ame]

The Robertson McQuilkin Story - posted by FamilyLife (FamilyLife) - tangle.com

YouTube - ciugrowth's Channel

 

[spec4]

Governmernt isn't the solution to the problem, government is the problem. Ronald Reagan

 

[caddywhompus]

Doc Holliday in Tombstone:

There is no normal life, Wyatt. There's just life; and get on with it.

 

[Pocketman]

“We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
-Benjamin Franklin, upon signing the Declaration of Independence

 

[Lex Concord]

"A republic, madam, if you can keep it"

 

[Duncan]

Sometimes, you have to roll a hard six.
Commander William Adama

 

[Duncan]

" what a glorious morning for America. "

In his carriage headed for Woburn Samuel Adams heard the first sounds of gunfire. ' Oh , what a glorious morning is this ! " he exclaimed to
John Hancock.
Adams knew from his answer that Hancock thought he was talking about the fair spring dawn , and he explained. " I mean , " he said ,
" what a glorious morning for America. "

Sam Adams and John Hancock fleeing the British as they left Lexington traveling to Wolburn . April 19th ,1775

From the book :
Patriots
The Men who started the American Revolution