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I love the study of U.S. and world history along with the people that chartered the way. I thought it would be neat to see what other forum members like in the way of famous quotes or ideas from famous people. I'll start it off with one of my favorite quotes from my favorite founding father, Thomas Jefferson.

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

In most communities it is illegal
to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct
to manufacture a general war scare
in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Back to back World War Champs.

"If you are strong enough, there are no precedents."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Gunner, Sabot Up!

"War is hell"'

General Sherman.

"I have met the enemy and he is us."

Pogo

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Dick

"If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds." - Irwin Shaw on the subject of football

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

CW

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"To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -George Mason

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"If you are ferocious in battle, Remember to be magnanimous in Victory.
Col Tim Collins
1st BN Royal Irish Regiment
Iraq 2003

"I plan to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"

Ulysses Grant in a dispatch to the Secretary of War during the Battle of Spotsylvania

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Gunner, Sabot Up!

"If I had known I would live to be this old I would have taken better care of myself"

Mickey Mantle

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... a little behind in my work

Never, never, never NEVER give in! Winston Churchill.
We could use more like him today.
Jim

There is nothing quite so exhilarating as being shot at without effect.

--Winston Churchill

"Socialism is the redistribution of poverty."
Some European guy next to me on the ski lift

Can a people tax themselves into prosperity?

Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?

Winston Churchill

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PC, censorship
with a smile.

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat
or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell

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Compact 9mm Just my $0.02

"If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law."

Winston Churchill

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."

(Union) General John Sedgwick
Battle of Spotsylvania

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” - George Washington

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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have."

Gerald Ford

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Benjamin Franklin

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln

Save your breath to cool your soup.....my grandfather

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Vietnam Vet

Those that use yellow font will not be read by those using light blue forum.

- Mickey D

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Memory of Randy Freas-Rimfired

The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification. --Rep. Tom Delay majority whip, US House of Representatives

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Barry Goldwater

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

"Communism works only in heaven where they don't need it, and in hell where they've already got it."

Ronald Reagan

"Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."

Winston Churchill

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."

"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – Tacitus

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

Winston Churchill

Duty,Honor,Country those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be,what you can be, what you will be. They are your ralling points to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith,to create hope when hope has become forlorn.

General MacArthur
West Point 1962

Through defensive violence will alway's be 'sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principal, it would be still more unfortunant if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
St. Augustine

No possible rapidy of fire can atone for habitual carelessness of aim with the first shot.
T. Roosevelt 1895

Life is tough, it's even tougher when your stupid.
John Wayne

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyperson you meet.
Marine General James Mattis

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Ret. LEO/ NRA-LIFE

“But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." Jesus Christ in Luke 22:36

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"Hate War"-Lt Gen (ret) Hal Moore. Formally Lt Col with the 1st Cavalry Division, Ia Drang-RSVN-1965.

"One of the prize possessions of manhood since our forefathers first settled America always has been the gun. This attitude toward firearms has become an historic tradition in the United States. It represents a priceless freedom won by our forefathers which few other nations enjoy. So strong was their conviction about the right of reputable citizens to own and use firearms for lawful purposes that they amended our original Constitution to provide that 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That right is a foundation stone of American liberty. We owe it to our ancestors to preserve unimpaired that right which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to future generations that their inheritance not be destroyed. Let's act now to make certain that Americans always will have the freedoms, the values, and the pleasures signified by a man and his gun." American Rifleman editorial, March 1959

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt

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"History has taught us, that we have learned nothing from history." This is one of my favorites, and sadly, I am not sure if I have quoted it correctly, and do not know the author's name. If someone knows, please post it here. Thanks, Flapjack.

"How did you get so much cute onto just one face?"

Me....To Missus P&R Fan.

Jim

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
.....George Bernard Shaw

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Why duck?? It's a 9mm!

"Son, you are like a mule in the Kentucky Derby."

What my Dad said to be when I was younger and dating a girl worth about four-million dollars. Didn't last long.

"If America would be great, it must first be good." Alexis DeTocqueville.

This is my ABSOLUTE all time favorite... and it should be the motto of everyone defending our 2nd Amendment

"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."

Quote by:

Samuel Adams; known as the "Father of the American Revolution" August 1, 1776 Philidelphia State House

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

Nicolo Machiavelli

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Luke 22:36

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

Adolph Hitler, 1935, on The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany

"Madam, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and in the morning, I shall be sober, while you will still be ugly."

-Winston Churchill


"You flatter yourself, Madam; it's hanging out.

-Samuel Johnson.

I tried to think of something heavy & philosophical, but all I
could think of was this(supposedly carved on W.C. Fields
tombstone): "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia".

"Never in the course of human events has so much been owed by so many to so few." - Churchill