Posted: 11/15/2013 10:40:59 PM EDT
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This is my brothers shirt at a party tonight 
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. I never learned from a man who agreed with me. And one of my favorites (italics are mine): “Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” --Robert A. Heinlein there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Always remember this line when dealing with a lady. You will go far. |
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Got a couple of 'em.
As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron. ¥ H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 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 or overthrow it. ¥ Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? are they not ourselves. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. What clause in the state or federal constitution hath given away that important right.... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people. ¥ Tench Coxe (1755–1824), writing as "A Pennsylvanian," in "Remarks On The First Part Of The Amendments To The Federal Constitution," in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789, p. 2 col. 1 Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ¥ Dr. Huey P. Newton, "In Defense of Self-Defense" (20 June 1967) When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ¥ Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents" April 23, 1770 What good does it do me if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish? When a nation has reached this point, it must either change its laws and mores or perish, for the well of public virtue has run dry: in such a place one no longer finds citizens but only subjects ¥ Alexis de Tocqueville "Democracy In America" pub. 1836 OK, maybe more than a couple. |
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
-Ronald Reagan "It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, nor where the doer of deeds could have done better.”
”On the contrary, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - whose vision is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up again and again; who knows the great devotions, the great enthusiasms; who at best knows in the end the triumph of his achievement.” ”However, if he fails, if he falls, at least he falls while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory, nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt |
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No quote thread would be complete without some Jeff Cooper. And you can quote me on that. "Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06." "One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure — and in some cases I have — that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy."
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