quotable quotes

"Life is tough. Its tougher if you're stupid" -John Wayne

I'm dropping this from my signature..

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.
Mary O'Hara

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to posess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
--Adolf Hitler, H.R. Trevor-Roper, _Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944_(London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953, p. 425-426).

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. . . From the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. . . The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. . . A free people ought to be armed."
--George Washington (Speech, Jan. 7, 1790, printed in the "Boston Independent Chronicle", Jan. 14, 1790.)

"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."
--Sarah Brady, 1 July 1988

"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
--Heinrich Himmler

"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 Ghandi (Mahatma K. Gandhi Gandhi, An Autobiography, page 446)

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."
--Adolf Hitler, April 15, 1935 during his Berlin Day speech.

"The art of leadership...consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
--Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 3 (1925).

"The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."
--Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1925).

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
--Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 3 (1925).

"The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. [...] They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results."
--Prime Minister Benito Mussolini at the Italian Senate, June 8, 1923. Reproduced in "Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches" [London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1923], p.308-309

[Oxford]

Very interesting quotes LogansDad. Maybe tomorrow I'll do some research and find something emphatic to post.

My signature quote is definitely what I try to live by most of the time.

Ox:nod:

[NRAJOE]

"I yam what I yam"
--Popeye

[Sniper[MI]]

"You am what you is" Frank Zappa

[NRAJOE]

"Don't you eat that yellow snow"-- Frank Zappa

"beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" and "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
:nod:

[Oxford]

"Don't pass up a chance to use the bathrooms or have sex, whichever comes first. You never know when it'll be your last chance."

This quote is for us old geezers.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

--- Theodore Roosevelt

The price of liberty is eternal vigilence.

--- Thomas Jefferson

The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable government intrusion.

Justice Potter Stewart

[oneastrix]

If you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten.

I don't know who said that.

[whirlwind]

a wise man once said...."put jessica lynch in playboy dam it!"....his name escapes me at the moment

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

[grizzly]

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so~~Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942

"Even in friendly territory, a fortified camp should be set up; a general should never have to say 'I did not expect it.'"
- The Emperor Maurice, The Strategikon, c. 600ad

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."~~Sigmund Freud

"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

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~ George Washington

"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, 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

"Lots of reporters, when they have a question about guns, they call the Brady people, which is like calling the Klan for information on the N.A.A.C.P." Michael Bane

"An armed society is a polite society." ~~ Robert A. Heinlein

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~~ James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 46 at 243-244

"Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom." ~~ Charlie Reese

"The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,"~~Mikhail Kalashnikov, April 1997

"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

"Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime." ~~ Sen. Larry Craig

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

"Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution they don't like." ~~ Alan Dershowitz

"Many people mistakenly see weapons as the source of crime rather than a reaction to it. This is rather like blaming your flat tire on the spare you carry in the trunk." ~~ Mickey Michels

"Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." ~~ Lily Tomlin

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." ~~ Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)

"One man with courage is a majority." ~~ Thomas Jefferson

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." ~~ Thomas B. Reed (1886)

The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience, or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." ~~ Samuel Adams, Massachusetts’ U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788

"How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless." ~~ Ted Nugent

"The sheeping of America is nearly complete." ~~ Ted Nugent

"You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don’t get caught exercising them." ~~ Terry Mitchell; Executive Editor, The Revolutionary Toker

"Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol." ~~ Lori Broadhead

"So, Your Honor, the Pledge is unconstitutional because it says 'Under God'. Guess that means when you were sworn in with your hand on a Bible, and at the end of your oath repeated, 'So Help Me God' that makes your job unconstitutional, therefore you have no job, which means your ruling doesn't mean ****." ~~ Dennis Miller, recent comments made on his show,
regarding the judge who declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional

"Suppose you were an idiot.....and suppose you were a member of Congress.....But I repeat myself" ~~ Mark Twain

"You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you'll find me in a pile of brass."~~ Tpr. M. Padgett
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.~~SUSAN B. ANTHONY

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it."~~Joseph Goebbels Nazi propoganda minister

"When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you"~~Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince"

"The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, "The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed." And they wonder why we're a bit testy"~~-editor , KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."~~Nikita Khrushchev

"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person."~~Vladimir Lenin

"There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual."~~ Benito Mussolini

"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual"~~Adolph Hitler

"At a time when our entire country is banding together and facing down individualism, the Patriots set a wonderful example, showing us all what is possible when we work together, believe in each other, and sacrifice for the greater good."~~Ted Kennedy

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."~~Hillary Clinton, 1993

[Sniper[MI]]

The first is, "If you can do it, it ain't bragging" I think that was from Yogi Berra

the second is, "Would you look at all them Indians." General George Custer

[einnor1040]

Life is like a chit Sandwich.
The more bread you have
the less chit you have to eat.

[NRAJOE]

"The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,"~~Mikhail Kalashnikov, April 1997 :right: