The whole problem with the world.....

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell

Covert Mission inspired me to start this thread....favorite pro-freedom quotes, sayings, proverbs....you name it. I'm sure this has been done before, but I love hearing words of wisdom, especially when they're about FREEDOM and LIBERTY!!!! Inspirational to the soul.

...and with that I will quote the great Ronald Reagan, the most important man in the history of the modern world, and my hero till the day I draw my last breath...

"In this two-hundredth anniversary year of our Constitution, you and I stand on the shoulders of giants - men whose words and deeds put wind in the sails of freedom... We will be guided tonight by their acts, and we will be guided forever by their words."

-Ronald Reagan January 27, 1987

Amen in Liberty,

SM

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"When evil wins in the world, it is only by the default of the good. That is why one man of reason and moral stature is more important actually and potentially, than a million fools". -Ayn Rand
 
I like what the great warrior and leader, King David, said: "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright." (Psalm 20:7,8) NKJB
 
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
-William Proxmire

Don't know when he said it, but it's more true now than ever. ;)
 
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." -Nixon

Don’t bunch up – one grenade can get you all

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it”. Abraham Lincoln - 1st Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861

Illigitimi Non Corborundum

" 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt


Youth & Exuberance are always defeated by Age & Deceit

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ---- President John Adams

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong, which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either rods or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ---- Frederick Douglass


I only listen to the voices in my pants!
 
Some ideas are so outrageous that they can only be embraced by intellectuals. George Orwell

Nothing so gives the illusion of intelligence as the close personal association with large sums of money. John Kenneth Gailbrath
 
Really great quotes! Good medicine for troubled times...and a somber dose of how far we have to go as a nation to make things right again. And with that...

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands 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; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." - Thomas Paine
 
As to the first quote, many know Him as the Prince of peace, but IMHO He is also the greatest warrior and hero of all history:

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"But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." -Jesus Christ (Luke 22:36, see John 3:15-18)
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"Reasonable gun law?............There's No such critter!" --EQ

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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." --B. Goldwater, 1964

"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John
Hay, 1872

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
 
Airborne: Thanks--Tom Paine is one of my small group of heroes. Some years back a few of us were involved in a criminal case so weird that no one, even today would believe it all. I sometimes wonder myself, and a quick look through my records brings it all back too clearly. We were short of everything but enemies, some of whom we worked for. I kept a couple of Tom Paine's quotes posted on the wall, and I truly believe I would not have gotten through it without seeing them every day. The good guys (us) finally won, but it cost. Men like Paine, Douglass, Adams--and yes, Christ--combined an incredible moral force with sheer endurance. They no doubt had bad days too, and still they prevailed. We are in good company, and they truly 'are with us till the end of the world'. (Great thread--I needed that.)

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Robert Foote,
I am very touched by your heart felt appreciation for this thread.

The timeless words of great people we honor will power the mighty engine of freedom through Tyranny's wicked wrath. Of this I am confident. Their deeds give strength to the powerful bite of those who struggle against evils oppression everywhere. Liberty, in all its greatness, has no boundrys; as hell most certainly has no bottom. These giants stand tall for all eternity; as proudly as we stand here today bearing liberty's torch. The flame has never burned brighter! Opportunity is knocking.

"I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty of death; If I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted. -Harriet Tubman ("Moses), on her decision to escape from slavery

Regards in Freedom!
SM
 
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