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May 10, 2004, 11:37 am
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| Citizen #21521 Posts: 2,599 | Post your favourite quotes here: "The starving masses can't eat socialism." -Told to me by my former Young Pioneer leader "Work to become. Not to possess." -Confucious (something everyone has forgotten) "Welcome to POL1010 (Politics). I'm supposed to tell you how cool the UN is. Well, I'm going to tell you that all countries see the UN as you see a piece of shit on your shoe." -My favourite professor "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L.Mencken "Why is it that every protestor, activist, and idiot who tries to save the world is incapable of saying hi to their neighbour?" -From the same professor Ideological loyalty is the act of giving your soul to a vague concept, to be manipulated by people smarter than you. |
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May 10, 2004, 08:10 pm
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| 9/11: Inside Job  Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,446 | "America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -Claire Wolfe, 1995-Nov "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams |
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May 11, 2004, 02:30 am
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| Retired  Posts: 7,312 | what's the one from Ceasar I've seen in here about ruling by drumming up fear? Thanks "...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and you know how I feel about church services." Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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May 11, 2004, 02:57 am
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| Retired Posts: 7,312 | "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business." -- Calvin Coolidge, on the governing technique which allowed the healthiest economy this century. "...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and you know how I feel about church services." Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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May 11, 2004, 02:59 am
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| 9/11: Inside Job Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,446 | This one, Mia? "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." - Julius Caesar "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams |
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May 11, 2004, 11:25 am
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| Citizen #21521 Posts: 2,599 | Actually I dont know if the Caesar quote is an urban legend or real. I've heard it before, but I've never seen it on official texts. Anyone got any clarification or sources for its origins? (naturally in Latin only) Ideological loyalty is the act of giving your soul to a vague concept, to be manipulated by people smarter than you. |
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May 12, 2004, 06:26 pm
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| 9/11: Inside Job Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,446 | "This country still allows open discourse— though less everyday—and we who disagree should push the discussion and expose those who drive our policies." --Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams |
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May 12, 2004, 09:22 pm
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| Molten Ash  Posts: 28 | "...I am Cyrus. King of the world. When I entered Babylon...I did not allow anyone to terrorize the land...I kept in view the needs of the people and all its sanctuaries to promote their well-being...I put an end to their misfortune. The Great God has delivered all the lands into my hand; the lands that I have made to dwell in a peaceful habitation..." Cyrus the Great 530 BCE |
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May 14, 2004, 04:40 am
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| Untrained Fodder  Location: Alabama Posts: 1,354 | "Its' not the size of the dog in the fight. Its' the size of the fight in the dog!" -many football coaches "Only the dead have seen the end of war." -Plato "There is nothing to it but to do it." -many coaches "Do you want to live forever?" -anonymous seargent, knocked off in "starship troopers" "Go see a play." -Ghoast of Abraham Lincoln, addressing our current president with advice on how to improve our country. See my signature. Clean toe caps and a filthy mouth! Low morals and high morale! |
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May 14, 2004, 10:09 am
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| Navy Veteran  Location: Texas Posts: 6,335 | "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds" - Dr. Oppenhiemer after seeing the first atomic bomb detonate. Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" is still being challenged to this day, but by consensus Global Warming is a fact... that's REAL science at work, why didn't Albert just go that route? |
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May 14, 2004, 11:32 am
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| Hot Lava Posts: 1,859 | "No one knows, friends or foes, if Valhalla lies beyond the grave..." -L. Kilmister "I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long..." insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results... |
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May 15, 2004, 11:32 pm
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| Untrained Fodder Location: Alabama Posts: 1,354 | Quote:
 LMAO You could at least quote somebody with better marksmanship and game stalking skills. Clean toe caps and a filthy mouth! Low morals and high morale! | |
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May 20, 2004, 10:40 pm
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| Hot Lava Location: Glendale, Queens, New York Posts: 970 | President Herbert Hoover: "Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitiveness to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior." President Abraham Lincoln: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. In his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865" President Thomas Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." President John F. Kennedy: "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." President Theodore Roosevelt: "Walk softly, but carry a big stick" William Penn: "Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." General Douglas Mac Arthur: "And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they reliable, are they brave, are they capable of victory? Their story is known to all of you; it is the story of the American man-at-arms. My estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then as I regard him now--as one of the world’s noblest figures, not only as one of the finest military characters but also as one of the most stainless. His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty he gave--all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy’s breast. But then I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism; he belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom; he belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements. In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other he has drained deep the chalice of courage." A Republican - Conservative - PRO-ACTIVE HAWK with compassion For God & Country - To Serve, Defend & Protect Lock & Load - Go In Hot - Praise the Lord & pass the ammunition |
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May 21, 2004, 04:23 pm
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| Molten Ash Posts: 42 | "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." Sir Winston Churchill "Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols (1899 |
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