Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that are among these Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Turn out the lights the party's over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Turn out the lights the party's over. That one's Dandy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I'll be your huckleberry!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 That one's Dandy! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 "Somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back." Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 "Somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back." Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, of course. Well, I had been thinking great American quotes from history, in keeping with the article. But in the case of Firefly, I do have to make an exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 "Somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back." Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, of course. Well, I had been thinking great American quotes from history, in keeping with the article. But in the case of Firefly, I do have to make an exception. Thanks Doc. How about this one from the afore mentioned Chesty Puller: At the Chosin Reservoir, when informed that the Chinese had The Marines surrounded, was reported the have said, "Good. Now we can kill the ba$tards no matter which way we shoot." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. Lt. General George S. Pat,ton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 This is funny. Doc Holliday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 One of my favorites Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means." -- Ed Parker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 One of my favorites Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means." -- Ed Parker A knowing nod from someone who knows who Mr. Parker was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastmaster Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Geronimo! is an exclamation occasionally used by jumping skydivers or, more generally, anyone about to jump from a great height, or as a general exclamation of exhilaration. The cry originated in the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Okay, lots of good quotes. Here's a more current one.......wildly appropriate, I'd say: "The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat iron mike Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Amen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress, but then I repeat myself. Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Stop that! It will make you go blind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 If Chickens wore galoshes, they wouldn't have to stay cooped up all winter. ME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Col. William Prescott at the battle of Breed's Hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share Posted March 22, 2016 Here is one from a man who's mother was an American, and one of a few granted honorary citizenship, Winston Churchill We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Here is one from a man who's mother was an American, and one of a few granted honorary citizenship, Winston Churchill Another thing of considerable worth that he penned, Unfortunately his countrymen have once again failed to learn from their own history. “When the ships from America approached our shores with their priceless arms, special trains were waiting in all ports to receive their cargoes. The Home Guard in every county, in every village, sat up through the night to receive them ... . By the end of July we were an armed nation ... . Anyhow, if we had to go down fighting … a lot of our men and some women had weapons in their hands … .” Without the generosity of thousands of private American citizens including Major John W. Hession; Churchill and his countrymen would have been incapable of defending their shores with much more than pitchforks and torches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Another thing of considerable worth that he penned, Unfortunately his countrymen have once again failed to learn from their own history. Without the generosity of thousands of private American citizens including Major John W. Hession; Churchill and his countrymen would have been incapable of defending their shores with much more than pitchforks and torches. and we were thanked by phrases such as "Over paid, over sexed and over here". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Hand Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission. John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I did not like John Kennedy but I am ashamed how far we have sunk since that noble statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 24, 2016 Author Share Posted March 24, 2016 "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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 “Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender. Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face–that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand–the ultimatum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he would rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits–not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.” You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. “ Ronald Reagan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I miss Ronnie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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