Quote of the day thread

#576
#576
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

-G Dub
 
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#578
#578
"A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower, discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself..."

Thoreau
 
#579
#579
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams
 
#580
#580
“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

— Barack Obama
 
#581
#581
“No, no. I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something.”

— Barack Obama
 
#583
#583
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

-Thomas Paine
 
#584
#584
Hey what happened to the thread over in the recruiting forum where the guy was talking about lifting cars and stuff? That thing was full of great quotes.
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#585
#585
People sleep peaceably in thier beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on thier behalf.

- George Orwell
 
#586
#586
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

- John F. Kennedy
 
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#587
#587
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
 
#588
#588
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche
 
#589
#589
“Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.” -Lord Acton
 
#590
#590
“Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.” -Lord Acton
 
#591
#591
“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.” -Lord Acton
 
#592
#592
Any sex relation is bound to be full of peril, if only because it is a situation in which people lose their heads and act on instinct. Every such situation is full of hazards, no matter how much poetry may embellish it or logic justify it.

- H.L. Mencken
 
#593
#593
Politics under democracy consists almost wholly of the discovery, chase and scotching of bugaboos. The statesman becomes, in the last analysis, a mere witch-hunter, a glorified smeller and snooper, eternally chanting "Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum!" It has been so in the United States since the earliest days.

- H.L. Mencken
 
#595
#595
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

― Thomas Pain
 
#596
#596
Seems I have been slacking, so I am just gonna bump this thread with this.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

-James Madison
 
#597
#597
Former Canadian Prime Minister John J Diefenbaker told somebody "Do you know the difference between a porcupine and the Government?" The guy said no and was told by John J "With the Government the pricks are on the inside"
 
#599
#599
Last words of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer "I want that fifty bucks you owe me and i want it now" He was shot to death by Moses "Bud" Stiltz after that.
 
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