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“Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl”
“My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.”
“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.”
Frederick the Great
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"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Allegedly Oscar Wilde's last words
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"The edge. There is no honest way to explain it, because the only people who know where it is, are the ones who’ve gone over. The others, the living, are those who push their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down. But the edge is still out there."
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945
Come on, you sons of b$!&$es! Do you want to live forever?
GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC
near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Sir Winston Churchill.
As I remember it, the quote was, "Of all the governments in the world, democracy is the least evil."
I'm not sure which version is more accurate.
That's all I got.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
-Mark twain
More Weight!
-Giles Corey While being Crushed to death for witch craft
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
- Gen. George S. Patton
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I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.
I believe in my neighbors.
I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. Take Father Michael down our road a piece — I'm not of his creed, but I know the goodness and charity and lovingkindness that shine in his daily actions. I believe in Father Mike; if I'm in trouble, I'll go to him. My next-door neighbor is a veterinary doctor. Doc will get out of bed after a hard day to help a stray cat. No fee — no prospect of a fee. I believe in Doc.Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.
I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses...in the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home in the land.I believe in the honest craft of workmen. Take a look around you. There never were enough bosses to check up on all that work. From Independence Hall to the Grand Coulee Dam, these things were built level and square by craftsmen who were honest in their bones.
I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.
I believe in — I am proud to belong to — the United States. Despite shortcomings, from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.
And finally, I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown — in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability … and goodness … .of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure — will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage — and his noble essential decency.
This I believe with all my heart.
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"Let's roll"
"God fights on the side with the best artillery" Napoleon.
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
- Mark Twain
"Politics is supposed be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else."
"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
"All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true."
- Winston Churchill
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Come on, you sons of b@%$&es! Do you want to live forever?
GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC
near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918
Here's a few more WWI quotes..
"Retreat hell. We just got here."
-USMC Capt. Marine Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division France 1918.
"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns."
-Wilfred Owen
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver.
Situation excellent. I attack."
-General Ferdinand Foch
"Ils ne passeront pas." (They shall not pass)
- General Henri-Philippe Pétain, prior to the Battle of Verdun
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"
-Sir Edward Grey.
"Let's roll"That's satire, right?
I do not wish to join any group that would have me as one of its members. Groucho Marx
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it." -TJ
"Live free or die!"
General John Stark
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within
limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add
'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's
will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within
limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add
'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's
will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson
Huh. Oddly enough by that reasoning any of his slaves could have stabbed him.
Huh. Oddly enough by that reasoning any of his slaves could have stabbed him."Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within
limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add
'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's
will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson
Indeed.
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What it says is that the tyrant has only the same rights everyone does, nothing more.
‘‘Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ... If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?’’ — Patrick Henry
‘‘No slave shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be forfeited to him who will seize them.’’
— A Bill Concerning Slaves, Virginia Assembly, 1779
‘‘No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements).’’
— Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (with his note added), 1776. Papers 1:353
‘‘To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...’’
— Richard Henry Lee, 1787
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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A bit long to call a quote, and always worth remembering that he was a terrible rascal, but I love this speech:
Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory. In these latter times, as in the days of our prosperity, you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity. With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable; it would have been civil war, and that would have entailed deeper misfortunes on France.
I have sacrificed all of my interests to those of the country.
I go, but you, my friends, will continue to serve France. Her happiness was my only thought. It will still be the object of my wishes. Do not regret my fate; if I have consented to survive, it is to serve your glory. I intend to write the history of the great achievements we have performed together. Adieu, my friends. Would I could press you all to my heart.
Napoleon Bonaparte - April 20, 1814
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
- Herodotus
"In the beginning a patriot is a scarce man: Hated, feared and scorned; but in time, when his cause succeeds, the timid join them, because then it costs nothing to be a patriot."----Mark Twain
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister 1783-1801 and 1804-1806
The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience -- Albert Camus
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Infamous Hermann Goering Quote
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."
by: Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]
Date: April 18, 1946
Source: Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave Gilbert (an Allied appointed psychologist), who visited daily with Goering and his cronies in their cells, afterwards making notes and ultimately writing the book about these conversations.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest.
Thucydites
"The cry has been that when war is declared,
all opposition should therefore be hushed.
A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war
and they are screened at once from scrutiny."
by:William Ellery Channing(1780-1842)
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." (Thomas Jefferson)
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken)
"The right of revolution is the inherent right of a people to cast out their rulers, change their polity, or effect radical reforms in their system of government or institutions, by force or a general uprising, when the legal and constitutional methods of making such changes have proved inadequate, or are so obstructed as to be unavailable." (Henry Campbell Black)
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – *Tacitus*
Corporation
n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Responsibility
n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
-- Ambrose Bierce
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken)
Mencken... *sigh*
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." (Thomas Jefferson)
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson)
As ever, I wonder if he penned that bit of prose before, during or after spending his seed with his *ahem* "household staff".