Favorite Quotes or Sayings.... Again?

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"Put a rifle in the hands of a Subject, and he immediately becomes a Citizen." -- Jeff Cooper

"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H.L. Mencken, February 12, 1923, Baltimore Evening Sun

"If God had not wanted them to be sheared, he would not have made them sheep." -- Caldero (Bad guy from the Magnificent Seven)

"Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blow." -- Bob Dylan

"This is This" -- Robert DeNiro as "Michael" in THE DEER HUNTER

"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." -- Machiavelli


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Formerly known as Jack 99

"The Constitution is the fundamental law for the federal government. If that government's own courts can arbitrarily change it's meaning, the government becomes a law unto itself --- that is a lawless government, a government of men, not of law." -- Joseph Sobran

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." -- Frederic Bastiat
 
From the Nightstalkers' homepage, two commandments of OpSec:

I. Thou shalt not park thy helicopter in the open, for it bringeth the rain of steel.

X. Thou shalt cover thy face, hands, and helmet, for thine enemies maketh war not on bushes.

More available at www.nightstalkers.com

Also from the same source:

The important things are always simple.
The simple things are always hard.
The easy way is always mined.

If the enemy is in range, SO ARE YOU.

Anything you do can get you shot, including doing nothing.


And last, my favorite:

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." ~George Orwell
 
Came from the history channel last night. Kind of goes along with the socialist census we've been seeing lately.

"Uniformity of appearance insures uniformity of thought."

- Adolf Hitler
 
From Marcinko's "Rogue Warrior", something to the effect of...
Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
 
Here's some I like:

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!--Benjamin Franklin (attributed)

"We are corrupted by prosperity."--Tacitus (Histories)AD 115

"The desire for safety stands agains every great and noble enterprise"--Tacitus (Annals, chpt II)AD 116

"The more Corrupt the State, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus (Annals, Cpt III)AD 116

“As formerly we suffered from crimes, so now we suffer from laws.”—Publius Cornelius Tacitus. AD 116

I love this research paper! I'm actually learning something!
 
Oh, I forgot my mostist favoritist sayings:

He who beats his sword into a plowshare will plow for he who didn't!-- (Unknown)

"The battle always goes to he who shows up the firstest with the mostest"--(also unknown but circa WWII Patton maybe?)
 
"I never gave anyone hell. I gave them the truth and they thought it was hell". Harry S Truman

"the only time you'll ever need a gun, You REALLY need a gun. ???

My personal Favorite.....

"...FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS"! His honor the president, Charlton Heston
 
I found Jesus and He said, "Tag! You're it!"

but seriously,

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
 
"...the firstest with the mostest." is from the finest light infantry commander who ever lived, CSA Gen'l Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

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"..but never ever Fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and Bullets."
10mm: It's not the size of the Dawg in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog!
 
I'll share a few lines from my quotes.txt file.

Manly's Maxim:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Lady Luck brings added income today. Lady friend takes it away tonight.
--/usr/games/fortune

It's important that people know what you stand for.It's more important that they know what you won't stand for.
--fortune

Schizophrenia beats being alone.
--fortune

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gordon's first law:
If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.

The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
- Al Capone

There's almost no reason in the world to get into a fight, but there's NO reason not to know how. --Master George Halay Jr.

"bed 'em don't wed 'em, do 'em don't woo 'em, date 'em don't mate 'em" -- al bundy


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"There are roads that must not be followed, and battles that must not be fought.." --Sun Tzu
 
Tamara, your sentiment is correct, but I THINK your general is wrong. IIRC, it was Nathan B. Forrest, a lesser luminary in the Confederate general ranks.
 
"There's no replacement for displacement."

Parkinson's (?) corrollary to Murphy's Law:
"The effect that will cause the most frustration will manifest itself at the point in time guaraunteed to cause the maximum frustration."

"Anyone that is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed the job." Douglas Adams

From my USCG days:

"You have to go out. You don't have to come back."

Semper Paratus. (Always ready.)
Eric
 
Appropriate for the season:

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." [H. L. Mencken]

"If you are robbing Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul." [I think this is also Mencken. In any case, it is a summary of the above.]



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The difference between a hero, a martyr, and a moron: The cause may be the same but a hero wins and lives, a martyr wins and dies, a moron is just dead. - me

" Fate is a fickle bitch that dotes on irony." Glen Cook

" Unas salus victus nullam sperare salutem" The only hope for the damned is not to hope for salvation- Virgil, The Aenid.

Anything from The Art of War

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Those who use arms well cultivate the Way and keep the rules.Thus they can govern in such a way as to prevail over the corrupt- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
 
"come on, you apes! you wanta live forever?" unknown platoon sergeant, 1918. used by robert anson heinlein in starship troopers.

"people who dont vote need not bitch about how our government sucks. its your own fault" josh eikenberry, the very intellegent 17 year old creator,webmaster, and thought process behind The Daily Dammit. www.tdi.net/jbery/main.htm

"hooah" way to many sources to count.

and two of my all time favs..................

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"while u are burying your head in the sand i will be out doing something about the problem, excuse me if i tramp upon your skull." Guerilla1138

"you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door" pink floyd.

[This message has been edited by guerilla1138 (edited October 27, 2000).]
 
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