Ashe Ravenheart
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"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Ashe Ravenheart
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Isn't he also the one that said the best way to end poverty is to not let people become comfortable in it?
[strikethat]No, no I don't think he did.[/strikethat]
Oops, I think he did:
"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
Crimson Jester
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Sebastian wrote:My vote's for Aaron Burr.
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
Why because he can stand there calmly while another guy shot at him and aim?
| Doodlebug Anklebiter |
Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:Why because he can stand there calmly while another guy shot at him and aim?Sebastian wrote:My vote's for Aaron Burr.
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
Because Aaron Burr was the bad-ass of the Founding Fathers.
If he'd been French, he would've been Jean-Paul Belmondo.
If he'd been black, he would've been Samuel Jackson.
If he'd been in a Western, he'd have been Clint Eastwood.
"Aaron Burr: The First Name in Founding Father Bad-Assery"
| Patrick Curtin |
Crimson Jester wrote:Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:Why because he can stand there calmly while another guy shot at him and aim?Sebastian wrote:My vote's for Aaron Burr.
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."Because Aaron Burr was the bad-ass of the Founding Fathers.
If he'd been French, he would've been Jean-Paul Belmondo.
If he'd been black, he would've been Samuel Jackson.
If he'd been in a Western, he'd have been Clint Eastwood.
"Aaron Burr: The First Name in Founding Father Bad-Assery"
If he'd been Mexican, he would have been Santa Anna.
America dodged a bullet with that creep. (Even if Hamilton didn't)
| Patrick Curtin |
Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Philadelphian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
-Benjamin Franklin
| Patrick Curtin |
Patrick Curtin wrote:You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fnckin' heart out!
-Benjamin Franklin
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Wasn't that quote about George Washington?
Aaron Burr, actually. AB was actually a steampunk cyborg sent back from 1865 to murder Bathsheba Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's grandmother. Benjamin Franklin, actually a captain in the Union Air Dirigibles, followed him back in time to stop his evil plot. The the timestream got all screwed up.
| Burgomeister of Troll Town |
Crimson Jester wrote:Aaron Burr, actually. AB was actually a steampunk cyborg sent back from 1865 to murder Bathsheba Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's grandmother. Benjamin Franklin, actually a captain in the Union Air Dirigibles, followed him back in time to stop his evil plot. The the timestream got all screwed up.Patrick Curtin wrote:You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fnckin' heart out!
-Benjamin Franklin
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Wasn't that quote about George Washington?
This. I usually don't see eye-to-eye with Comrade Curtin, but sometimes he knows his shiznit.