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Posted: 9/30/2008 3:53:18 PM EST

[#1]

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Wormer

Posted: 9/30/2008 3:54:08 PM EST

[#2]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The only easy day was yesterday. Some of you will know where that comes from.

SEALS, correct?

Navy Seals. Yes.

Posted: 9/30/2008 3:57:31 PM EST

[#3]

See sig.

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:00:15 PM EST

[#4]

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." - attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:02:24 PM EST

[#5]

“When Fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross”

- Sinclair Lewis

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:04:48 PM EST

[#6]

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." --Herbert Spencer

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:05:18 PM EST

[#7]

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

George Bernard Shaw

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:08:02 PM EST

[#8]

"We're paratroopers, sir - we're supposed to be surrounded."

Not sure who said it first, but I think I saw it on Band of Brothers

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:08:21 PM EST

[#9]

Do not cut off a man's nose and then hand him a rose to smell

Indian proverb

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:15:16 PM EST

[#10]

A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:15:57 PM EST

[#11]

The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.

-- Gerald W. Scully

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:16:41 PM EST

[#12]

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

-- Henry Ford

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:17:25 PM EST

[#13]

"What are they planning to do to normal, honest people, that they want us to be disarmed when they do it?" - Keith R. Wood

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:17:40 PM EST

[#14]

Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.

-- Shelby Steele

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:29:13 PM EST

[#15]

Got this from someone's sig line I think over at XDtalk:

"Good health is the slowest rate at which one can die"

Posted: 9/30/2008 4:30:44 PM EST

[#16]

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious." -Vince Lombardi

Posted: 9/30/2008 5:06:33 PM EST

[#17]

Quoted:
If pro is the opposite of con then what is the opposite of Progress?

First time I've ever said that!

Posted: 9/30/2008 5:08:58 PM EST

[#18]

"There's no such thing as a fair fight. Find the biggest stick you can find and....." My Dad.

Posted: 9/30/2008 8:07:30 PM EST

[#19]

Some good stuff in here! Keep it up!

-Ben

Posted: 9/30/2008 8:42:51 PM EST

[#20]

Quoted:
Your as worthless as tits on a boar hog.

Tits on a sow hog come in quite handy at times.

Posted: 9/30/2008 8:54:13 PM EST

[#21]

There will be plenty of time to sleep after you die.

Posted: 9/30/2008 9:07:15 PM EST

[#22]

I've seen this quoted slightly differently at other times but, here's how I best remember it:

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"

-George Orwell

Posted: 9/30/2008 9:10:53 PM EST

[#23]

Peter Clemenza: "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

Posted: 9/30/2008 9:14:02 PM EST

[#24]

My current favorite-

What we do in life echos for eternity
-Maximus, Gladiator (2000)

Posted: 9/30/2008 9:25:42 PM EST

[#25]

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Frederick Nietzsche

Posted: 9/30/2008 9:30:48 PM EST

[#26]

"Shoot straight, you bastards, don't make a mess of it" - last words of Harry "Breaker" Morant.

Posted: 9/30/2008 9:48:32 PM EST

[#27]

But a Martyr is still dead.

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:00:27 PM EST

[#28]

Absolute certainty is God's compensation to the small-minded.

-me

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:10:26 PM EST

[#29]

If at first you don't succeed, blame it on your parents.

- Animaniacs

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:12:37 PM EST

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." — Sir Alex Fraser Tyler (1742-1813)

Wow, great quote - very timely too.

this quote is routinely attributed to de tocqueville, but it is found nowhere in his writings. i would love to find a reliable attribution for it, since i can't use it academically until i have a source.

I've never even seen that version - I've seen the first part attributed to Tocqueville as well - but never verified.

I think I addresses the second portion in a thread a while back. I remember seeing that latter part on a bulletin board some 15 years ago in a church. It smacks of something someone made up recently - my guess is around the bicentennial period of this country. The "200 years" bit has zero historical basis, unless one were to force the issue.

One of my favorite apocryphal quotes, which I would love to verify, is in my profile.

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:16:17 PM EST

[#31]

Quoted:
If pro is the opposite of con then what is the opposite of Progress?

Regression?

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:17:06 PM EST

[#32]

"maybe this wasn't such a good idea..."

George A. Custer

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:25:53 PM EST

[#33]

"Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome."
CHARLES MACKAY

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:35:39 PM EST

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
If pro is the opposite of con then what is the opposite of Progress?

Regression?

Fail, read it again.

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:35:56 PM EST

[#35]

See sig.

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:37:49 PM EST

[#36]

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper."

George W. Bush

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:39:45 PM EST

[#37]

Read my Sig below.

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:52:06 PM EST

[#38]

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."

Ronald Reagan

Posted: 9/30/2008 10:53:04 PM EST

[#39]

"Let us speak courtiously, deal fairly and keep ourselves armed and ready."
--Theodore Roosevelt, May 13th 1903

"I make the pesos so I get the say so's"

Posted: 9/30/2008 11:15:14 PM EST

[#40]

"A pessimist is an optimist with experience!"

Posted: 9/30/2008 11:21:57 PM EST

[#41]

Quoted:
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Hemingway

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

Posted: 9/30/2008 11:23:37 PM EST

[#42]

See sig.

All mine.

Posted: 9/30/2008 11:54:02 PM EST

[#43]

Aim small, miss small...

Posted: 9/30/2008 11:54:50 PM EST

[#44]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free

Ronald Reagan

Posted: 10/1/2008 12:13:59 AM EST

[#45]

When young men seek to be like you, when lazy men resent you, when powerful men look over their shoulder at you, when cowardly men plot behind your back, when corrupt men wish you were gone and evil men want you dead, only then will you have done your share.
-Phil Messina

Posted: 10/1/2008 12:14:43 AM EST

[#46]

"I brought you into this world, And i can take you out, So shut the fuck up" my dad.

Posted: 10/1/2008 12:24:43 AM EST

[#47]

"I don't care if Yaks do have horns, the crunch still gives it away" - Jim W.

Posted: 10/1/2008 12:54:18 AM EST

[#48]

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
-- Patrick Henry (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 5 June 1778)

'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.'

~Thomas Jefferson