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Posted: 2/22/2006 3:00:06 PM EST
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 2/24/2006 9:48:27 PM EST
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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-Unknown Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -Harry S. Truman Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. -Theodore Roosevelt Never exceed your recommended daily allowance of vitamin "duh" -Me |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 4:36:03 PM EST
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Socialism: You have 2 cows; give one to your neighbor.
Communism: You have 2 cows; government takes both and gives you the milk. Fascism: You have 2 cows; government takes both and sells you the milk. Nazism: You have 2 cows; the government takes both and shoots you. Bureaucracy: You have 2 cows; the government takes both then shoots one, milks the other and throws away the milk. Capitalism: You have 2 cows; you sell one and buy a bull. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/14/2006 8:13:33 PM EST
[Last Edit: MurdockTheCrazy]
[#4]
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
--- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus 56 A.D. - 117 A.D. |
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Posted: 3/17/2006 7:49:21 PM EST
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
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Posted: 5/13/2006 7:30:45 PM EST
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A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides, Greek Historian |
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Posted: 5/17/2006 10:57:54 AM EST
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There are people in this world that want to kill us just because we are Americans. Whose going to stop them? YOU? - me in conversation with a libtard.
"Run motherf*ckers cause I'm here now"! - me after hitting Iraqi soil. |
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Posted: 6/7/2006 7:32:37 PM EST
[Last Edit: BravoCompanyUSA]
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"I guess the NRA's marketing plan didn't take into account those of us who rush excitedly to the front window when the snow plow goes past, hoping it's a bright blue APC filled with a bunch of gun grabbing Famas toting surrender monkeys."
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OR, USA
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Posted: 6/8/2006 11:10:48 AM EST
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The Fall Of A Republic
When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time: 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 treasury. 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. |
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Posted: 6/10/2006 8:59:08 AM EST
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The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Among the charges against the King of Great Britain: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
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Posted: 8/23/2006 6:34:29 AM EST
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"Everybody wants to get big, but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weight."
Ronnie Coleman (Mr Olympia) |
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Posted: 8/23/2006 8:51:52 AM EST
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A Specialist in the Army in Iraq after I found a tunnel dug by the insurgents;
"You're gonna make me go into that hole aren't you"? |
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Posted: 9/9/2006 2:57:26 AM EST
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"¡Dígalo en inglés o retroceda a México! "
(Say it in English or move back to Mexico!) Me, in response to people saying the Pledge of Allegiance in spanish |
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ID, USA
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Posted: 11/8/2006 1:49:05 PM EST
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lol, I like that, sums it up pretty well. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity…" Hanlon’s Razor BTW, any 20" AR uppers in stock yet? |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 1/1/2007 1:47:21 AM EST
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Sorry to reply to such an old topic, but I think this quote, my favorite, was overlooked. Thought I'd add it.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum!" (If you seek peace, prepare for war!) - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Roman Military Strategist |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 7/11/2007 7:47:36 AM EST
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) "Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own." Buddha |
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MD, USA
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Posted: 12/4/2007 8:41:34 PM EST
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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 |
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PR, USA
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Posted: 12/14/2007 8:35:47 AM EST
[Last Edit: ARCANGEL]
[#18]
"I just love the French. They taste like chicken!"
---- Hannibal Lecter |
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KS, USA
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Posted: 2/9/2008 8:37:09 PM EST
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But for the United States soldier, the official language of France would be German.
. Anything the government does to benefit the people...........is purely coincidental. my father-in-law |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/8/2008 3:45:58 PM EST
[Last Edit: maverick698869]
[#20]
Not sure if this actually happened, but for what it's worth:
Katie Couric was interviewing a special forces sniper who had just returned from Iraq when she asked the following: Katie Couric: "What do you feel when you shoot an insurgent?" Sniper: "A slight recoil, ma'am." her"How do you shoot women and children?" "Easy, you just don't lead 'em as far!!!" |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 10/16/2008 9:12:54 PM EST
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"You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." -- Rev. William J. H. Boetcker* |
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ID, USA
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Posted: 3/23/2009 6:33:57 PM EST
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"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
––C.S. Lewis |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 6/21/2009 2:17:41 PM EST
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We don't do it for the glory. We don't do it for the recognition... We do it because it needs to be done.
Because if we don't, no one else will. And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers we ever existed. - (Supergirl, DC Comics) |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 9:34:21 PM EST
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Ok please dont ban me Bravo but........
"Your wife's pu$$y taste like sweet butter" Vick Macky, The Shield |
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Posted: 7/6/2009 9:36:16 PM EST
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..Oh and
"Chancho, When you are a man.........sometimes you wear stretchy pants.........in your room...its for fun" Nacho Libre |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 7/9/2009 5:25:10 PM EST
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Never argue with an idiot, they will only drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience.
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OK, USA
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Posted: 7/25/2009 8:39:14 PM EST
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Originally Posted By rippedr1:
Never argue with an idiot, they will only drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience.  oh man, that is a good one
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Posted: 7/25/2009 10:05:30 PM EST
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"The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home." –– Antonin Gregory Scalia
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OK, USA
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Posted: 8/1/2009 1:44:37 AM EST
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all these are from the movie "Jarhead"
Cortez: "I'm the midget, huh? Let's go you squishy-faced retard!" Fowler: "Don't you ever call me squishy-face!" ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Fowler: "Hey, look! It's a cock, but smaller" ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Anthony Swofford: "A story. A man fires a rifle for many years. and he goes to war. And afterwards he comes home, and he sees that whatever else he may do with his life - build a house, love a woman, change his son's diaper - he will always remain a jarhead. And all the jarheads killing and dying, they will always be me. We are still in the desert. " ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Sgt. Siek: "The Bible says 'Thou shalt not kill.' But hear this: FUCK THAT SHIT!" –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Anthony Swofford: "The Marine must learn to kill. He may wear a tattoo, or display his medals, or tell lies in bars. But he is not a true marine until he has seen combat. " ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- |
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Posted: 8/2/2009 12:31:41 PM EST
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Corporate society takes care of everything. And all it asks of anyone, all it's ever asked of anyone ever, is not to interfere with management decisions. - - Bartholomew, Rollerball, 1975 |
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Posted: 8/3/2009 9:38:38 AM EST
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Miller Hemmingway |
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Posted: 8/3/2009 9:40:10 AM EST
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"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
General Ulysses S. Grant |
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Posted: 8/5/2009 12:39:53 PM EST
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"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. 'Eat leaden death, demon'..." — Terry Pratchett |
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Posted: 8/18/2009 4:37:01 AM EST
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. –– Lazarus Long ( Robert Heinlein) I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces — with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now. The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana (1990) |
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Posted: 9/19/2009 12:54:28 PM EST
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"If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
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Posted: 9/19/2009 12:54:33 PM EST
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"America has an extraordinary long fuse, but every now and then the world has to be reminded that when you do eventually get to the end of that fuse there is a big bomb attached"
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Posted: 9/19/2009 12:54:47 PM EST
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"If you see someone smile when everything goes wrong, then they have someone in mind to blame."
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Posted: 9/19/2009 12:55:42 PM EST
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"Assistance from a distance, we aim to please."
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Posted: 9/19/2009 2:55:33 PM EST
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And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. –– Matthew 10:36 |
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Posted: 9/19/2009 7:58:36 PM EST
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You fucked up... You trusted us. –– "Animal House" Actually I saw this posted as a comment to a news story about the missile defense system not going to Poland. 
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ID, USA
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Posted: 9/24/2009 1:02:52 PM EST
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis |
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Posted: 10/4/2009 5:26:09 AM EST
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown
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Posted: 10/26/2009 8:04:13 PM EST
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Everything this great country has was taken, won, preserved or cherished was provided by the rifle and the will to use it.
Me in an agrument with my mother-in-law, left her speechless. Jeff |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/14/2009 12:33:06 AM EST
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Liberalism is in fact a form of mental retardation. Author- Me
The only easy day was yesterday. Author- Navy Seals Flairing on landing is like squatting to pee. Author- Naval Aviator addressing a Air Force Pilot. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 12/24/2009 9:53:28 AM EST
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HOPE is not a method
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FL, USA
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Posted: 1/11/2010 11:26:07 PM EST
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.
Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!" - Sun Tzu, the Art of War |
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USA
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Posted: 1/18/2010 1:42:22 AM EST
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"Are you putting crack on your Froot Loops?"
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TX, USA
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Posted: 1/24/2010 4:56:48 PM EST
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Originally Posted By G-lock:
Everything this great country has was taken, won, preserved or cherished was provided by the rifle and the will to use it. Me in an agrument with my mother-in-law, left her speechless. Jeff I will use this often and not give you the credit. 
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Posted: 1/29/2010 3:08:31 AM EST
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Probably funny only to myself and my coworkers. I am a Deputy at a jail. Had a drunk douche say that we were "Just desk jockeys with a little bit of power."
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KS, USA
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Posted: 2/8/2010 1:28:03 PM EST
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Give me Liberty, or give me Death : Patrick Henry
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! : Samuel Adams If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. : Samuel Adams |
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