Famous Quotes

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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."

 

[Comrad]

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

 

[COL Jagdog]

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[mg357]

"War is hell"'

General Sherman.

 

[diamonback68]

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

Pogo

 

[cmort666]

"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

 

[Straightshooter2]

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

 

[kozmic]

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

 

[MP1SG]

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

 

[COL Jagdog]

"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

 

[lonejacklarry]

Quote from the Mick

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

Mickey Mantle

 

[P&R Fan]

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

 

[Dashriprock]

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

--Winston Churchill

 

[Tom K]

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

 

[red14]

Can a people tax themselves into prosperity?

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

Winston Churchill

 

[jeffsmith]

"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

 

[Alnamvet68]

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

Winston Churchill

 

[Double-O-Dave]

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

(Union) General John Sedgwick
Battle of Spotsylvania

 

[Mickey D]

“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

 

[Alnamvet68]

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

Gerald Ford

 

[Alnamvet68]

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

Benjamin Franklin

 

[Garand Man]

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

 

[luangtom]

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

 

[Mickey D]

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

- Mickey D

 

[Garand Man]

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

 

[Alnamvet68]

"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

 

[Garand Man]

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

 

[Alnamvet68]

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

Ronald Reagan

 

[Alnamvet68]

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[Alnamvet68]

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

Winston Churchill