My favorite quotes

[The patriot]

Does anyone have any they want to share?

Here are some of mine.







"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does

not want merely because you think it would be good for him. "



Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -

and miss.



Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed



"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"



"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. "



"An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. "



"You live and learn. Or you don't live long. "



"Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your

second shot perfect. "



"Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not. "





"It doesn't take a majority to prevail, rather, a tireless irrate

minority keen to set brush-fires in people's minds. "



-Calvin Coolidge





"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of

the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the

freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,

who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who

salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is

draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag. "

~Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC









You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense,

but youcannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

- Sun Tzu



To fight and conquer in one hundred battles is not the highest skill.

To subdue the enemy with no fight at all, that's the highest skill.

- Sun Tsu



Focus on your one purpose

- Japanese motto



The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply

staying on the path.

- Richard Strozzi Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit



Take arrows in your forehead, but never in your back.

- Samurai maxim



















Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they

sought.



Basho































To hear is to forget, to see is to remember, to do is to understand.



Chinese proverb































Knowing others is intelligence; Knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; Mastering yourself is true power.



Lao-tzu































It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey

that matters, in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin































One mind, any weapon.



Hunter B. Armstrong































Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it's price.



Sun Tzu































Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.



Choi, Hong Hi Founder of Taekwon-Do

 

[The patriot]

"An unwillingness to deal forcibly with violence does not equate to

moral rectitude. " -- Mary Malmros











"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought

which they avoid. "

- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)





"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that

counts can be counted. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)







"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But,

in practice, there is. "

- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut



"I'll moider da bum. "

- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of

William Shakespeare



"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. "

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)



"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

while bad people will find a way around the laws. "

- Plato (427-347 B. C. )



"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)



"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. "

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)



"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like

an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig

was'committed'. "

- unknown



"If you are going through hell, keep going. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for

the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)



"A witty saying proves nothing. "

- Voltaire (1694-1778)



"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast

enough. "

- Mario Andretti



"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. "

- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)



"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart;

and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no

brains. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)



"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. "

- Thomas Jones





"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. "

- Plato (427-347 B. C. )





"Plato was a bore. "

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)





"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "

- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

 

[The patriot]

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)





"Hemingway was a jerk. "

- Harold Robbins













"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. "

- Epictetus (55-135 A. D. )





"What about things like bullets?"

- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing

the above quote (1981)











"Opportunities multiply as they are seized. "

- Sun Tzu



"Well done is better than well said. "

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)



"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for

good men to do nothing. "

- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)



"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get

us out?" "

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)



"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. "

- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)



"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it

only guarantees equality of opportunity. "

- Irving Kristol



"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. "

- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)



"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be

both. "

- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"



"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to

keep. "

- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King

Live



"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his

hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. "

- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)





‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are

neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make

things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they

serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed

man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ’’

— Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes

and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764





Gun Control -- an effort to pass laws to restrain people who obey laws

with the promise that the right combination of such laws will

eventually deter criminals even in the absence of enforcement.











QUESTION: I'm wondering, when I talk to my friends about the U. S. , we

think about how do you

feel about representing a country commonly perceived as the Satan of

contemporary politics?

SECRETARY POWELL: Satan? Oh. Well, I reject the characterization.

Quite the contrary.

I think the American people, the United States of America, presents a

value system to the

rest of the world that is based on democracy, based on economic

freedom, based on the

individual rights of men and women. That is what has fueled this

country of ours for the

last 225 years.



I think that's what makes us such as draw for nations around the

world. People come to

the United States. They come to be educated. They come to become

Americans. We are a country

of countries, and we touch every country, and every country in

the world touches us.



So, far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the

Great Protector. We have

sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States

to other parts of the world

throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated

Fascism. We defeated

Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We

were willing to do it,

glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in

the interest of preserving

the rights of people.



And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did

we stay and conquer?

Did we say" "Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs

to us? We defeated Japan,

so Japan belongs to us"? No. What did we do? We built them up.

We gave them democratic

systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And

did we ask for any land?

No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury

our dead. - Secretary Powell





They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because

I wasn't a communist;

They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because

I was not a socialist;

They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because

I wasn't a union leader;

They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I

wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak

up for me.



Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984





“People who carry guns carry Glocks, those who shoot guns carry 1911's”





"The injection of any rifle into a short-range fight has a

tremendous physiological and

psychological effect on all parties involved..... "

- Clint Smith







"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready

in the night to visit violence

on those who would do us harm".



George Orwell





"If you discount murder... Crime in Washington D. C. is not

that bad. " D. C. Mayor Marion Barry







Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

His wife Hillary got $8 million for hers.

That's $20 million for memories from two people who for

eight years

repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't

remember

anything.





"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional

maturity. " ("General Introduction to Psychoanalysis," S. Freud

 

[The patriot]

Sorry about some of the spacing there. Cut & paste didnt work out all that well.

Eric

 

[Cummins Pilot]

Darwin Theory "Improving the gene pool one idiot at a time"



Once you forget, the claymore is pointed at you.



Incoming fire has the right of way.



"The best school for learning is the school of experience, hard knocks & bad luck. The problem is, is that the tution fees are so darn high. " From a chief pilot of an airline.

 

[AfterBurner]

"You don't win wars dying for your country, you win them by making the other ******* die for his"

-Patton

 

[klenger]

In America, anyone can become president. That's the risk you take. (A. Stevenson)



We're not happy till you're not happy. (FAA Denver FSDO)



You can buy better, but you can't pay more for it. (Rick Hosker)



It sure makes for a long day when you get to work on-time. (Bill Shepard)

 

[Mike Ellis]

"Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. "

- Jesus



"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. "Mankind censures injustice, fearing that they may be victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. "

-Plato



"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. "

-George Washington



The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it. "

-Woodrow Wilson



"Public officials are elected primarily for one purpose -- to solve public problems. You have a right to ask any candidate about his understanding of the problems facing us, his acceptance of responsibility for solving those problems, and whether he has a fresh approach or just offers the same old bargain-basement politics -- 'We'll do everything the other fellow's been doing, only we'll do it cheaper and better. ' You have a right to know -- and I am obligated to tell you -- where I stand and what I believe. To begin with, I am not a politician. I am an ordinary citizen with a deep-seated belief that much of what troubles us has been brought about by politicians; and it's high time that more ordinary citizens brought the fresh air of common sense thinking to bear on these problems. We've had enough of the wheeling and dealing, and enough of schemers and schemes. I think it's time now for dreamers -- practical dreamers -- willing to re-implement the original dream which became this nation -- that idea that has never fully been tried before in the world -- that you and I have the capacity for self-government -- the dignity and the ability and the God-given freedom to make our own decisions, to plan our own lives and to control our own destiny. "

-Ronald Reagan



A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower



It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

-Arthur Calwell



You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

-W. Somerset Maugham



He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. "

-Aesop



"Life is mostly froth and bubble,

Two things stand like stone,

Kindness in another's trouble,

Courage in your own. "

- Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (1833-1870)



No man is an island, entire of itself

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main

if a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,

as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were

any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind

and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls

it tolls for thee.

-- John Donne

 

[AfterBurner]

"If the enemy is within range, so are you. "

"the more sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. "

 

[phloop]

"The weather is here, wish you were beautiful. " Jimmy Buffett

 

[fkovalski]

Not sure who said these:

This first one could apply to many of the TDR members here... . maybe the second too!





Necessity is the mother of invention







An armed society is a polite society.

 

[SRadke]

What! No beer quotes



"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with

the fools he must come in contact with every day. "



-- Ernest Hemingway

 

[fkovalski]

What! No beer quotes

paraphrased:



"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"

Benjamin Franklin

 

[NPloysa]

"Twin engine planes are very reliable. When one engine quits, the second will surely fly you to the scene of the accident. "



"How do you make a million dollars in the aviation industry? Start with 2 million. "



Nick-I have more in my "Slipping the Surly Bonds" book, but its at my parent's house.

 

[ladyjaine]

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams



I love this quote because I study tapestry, porcelain, poetry, music and architecture. It reminds me of everyone who fought to allow their children to build and all the children who worked at building so that I might decorate.



Jean

 

[klenger]

How to make a small fortune in aviaiton,... start with a large one.



I spent most of my money on women and liquor, the rest I just wasted.

 

[BNH4221]

What! No beer quotes?

"Working is the scourge of the drinking class"



(With apologies to) Oscar Wilde



Steve

 

[SRadke]

I spent most of my money on women and liquor, the rest I just wasted.

LOL, I need to add my truck to that list



-Scott

 

[Not Guilty]

Don't squat with your spurs on

 

[phloop]

paraphrased:



"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"

Benjamin Franklin

fkovalski, thank you. I did not have time this morning too post that one also.