Quote from History

[K.M.I.A]

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

[lz_NorthPole]

"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

[K.M.I.A]

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance,they are the peoples liberty's teeth......George Washington

[lz_NorthPole]

Quotes that define our nation and today's situation.

HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW?

Especially read the last quote from 1802.



When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson


It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson


I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson


My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much
government.
Thomas Jefferson


No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson said in 1802 :
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

[LadyDoc]

The Liberty Teeth quote is actually a false quote. Washington never said it.

Here is a nice article on Guncite which discusses the many false quotes floating around the interwebs. But it also provides lots and lots of really good verified ones like this:

"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
--- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763,reprinted in 3 The Works of John Adams 438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).


http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndbog.html

[K.M.I.A]

If your not ready to die for it,put the word "freedom"out of your vocabulary............Malcolm X

[lz_NorthPole]

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Will Rogers

[Zimmy]

I'm gonna need a bigger knife.

Jim Bowie (Alamo)

[lz_NorthPole]

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

[Ironic-Mike]

"I'd just like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. And may they come home safe."

Kathryn Bigelow, upon winning the Oscar for best director of The Hurt Locker.

[K.M.I.A]

The future will be better tomorrow...................Dan Quayle

[lz_NorthPole]

Boy Did he screw the pouch on that one

LZ_ North Pole

[VB]

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."
–Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821

[LadyDoc]

"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice hitherto little known in our American Army, is growing into fashion. He hopes that the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this it is a vice so mean and low without any temptation that every man of sense and character detests and despises it."

Gen George Washington

General Orders, Headquarters 1776

[Jeff82]

"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice hitherto little known in our American Army, is growing into fashion. He hopes that the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this it is a vice so mean and low without any temptation that every man of sense and character detests and despises it."

Gen George Washington

General Orders, Headquarters 1776

How far we have fallen.