Pre-Game tributes to 9/11?

[gsvol]

I think this says it well, one of my favorite quotes of all time:

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. - John Stuart Mill

One of my favorite also.

Most all of us owe something to better men than ourselves, both past and present.

Ronald Reagan came out with some very good ones also, and I don't think they all came from speech writers like many of our so-called leaders use.


"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Ronald Reagan

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. "
Ronald Reagan

Let me guess.....

You are failing.

That made me lol!!! :rofl:

i'm guessing if you were president, you'd just send them an email saying you didn't appreciate that, and to please stop.

Better yet, he would probably tweet them!!

Very sad thread indeed.

I can appreciate that aaron views the world through the "everyone is intrinsically unselfish" prism. I can even appreciate that he doesn't care for our jingoism. However, the silliness that the Revolutionary War was the lone war fought for our way of life is very telling about his world. Listen to enough professors and mental soup is the outcome.

"Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life."

So the duck goes in a bar and orders a mug of hot buttered rum and the bartender tells him to get lost, he doesn't allow ducks in the bar.

Next day the same thing happens except the bartender kicks the duck out in the alley and says if he comes back he's going to nail his webbed feet to the floor!

Next day the duck sticks his head in the door and asks if they have any nails, the bartender yells back; "hell no, this is a bar not a hardware store!!"

The duck walks in and says; "well in that case I'll have a mug of hot buttered rum!"

Not sure I'm following...

My bad, I was getting sleepy, I meant to say; "I bet he wears camo jammies and he should take a chill pill!"

Please accept my sincere apology!! :mega_shok:

Anyway, hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac??

He stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog or not!!

 

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