Post your favorite quotes

I just came across these in a book that I am reading.


"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." - John Locke 1690

"Oh my countrymen! What will our children say, when they read the history of these times? Should they find we tamely gave away without one noble struggle, the most invaluable of earthly blessings? As they drag the galling chain, will they not execrate us? If we have any respect for things sacred; any regard to the dearest treasures on earth; if we have one tender sentiment for posterity; if we would not be despised by the whole world-let us in the most open, solemn manner, and with determined fortitude, swear that we will die, if we cannot live free men!" - Josiah Quincy Jr. published in the Boston Gazette, 1788

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are our constitutional rights secure."- Albert Einstein

" It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiently, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know niether victory or defeat."- Theodore Roosevelt

And this;

"War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight: nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of ever being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions and blood of better men than himself."- John Stuart Mill

 

"…man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."-Ronald Reagan

 

Note to self, do not drink coffee while reading posts with laughing smilies!!

Dear Penthouse............

 

Another good one;


"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice….and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."- Barry Goldwater

 

Thought it was time for some new ones.....


'Democracy: Where the votes of two imbeciles are worth more than that of one wise man'


"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable."-- H.L. Mencken

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

There is no left or right. There's the system and the enemies of the system.-- Eduard Limonov　


"...governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it..."--Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence


Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character -Margaret Chase Smith


If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave. --John Bryant

"As long as he is moderately comfortable, the average man will not change his ways. Only when existence becomes utterly intolerable and there is no alternative can he be persuaded to do what he should have done from foresight and through self-discipline at the beginning. That is his unalterable nature, and it is why democracy is such a catastrophe." -Dr. William L. Pierce

"Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution."--GK Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World

"A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."-- John Stuart Mill

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." --Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

'To know the truth when it is not fashionable is hard. To tell the truth when it is illegal is even harder.'–An Englishman


"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"- Napoleon Bonaparte


"Tolerance is the virtue of men who no longer believe in anything." -- G.K. Chesterton

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." - General George S. Patton

 

Not exactly a quote, but I like it...



Oh Lord, Grant that I may live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home..

But if that is not to be Lord, if evil men should arise before me, in my land, on my watch, then help me to sweep them from the ramparts, because doing so is good, and right, and just.

And if I should fail in the struggle, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind a wall of thier corpses. Amen

 

And another favorite....


And shepherds we shall be,
for thee my Lord for thee,
Power hath descended forth from thy hand,
that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command.
We shall flow a river forth to thee,
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.

In nominee Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

 

when I works, I works hard
when I sits, I sits loose
when I drinks, I falls asleep