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I have put quotes on here mostly from good, rightous people, but also a few from evil people. Not because I admire them, but because there are lessons to be learned. We can learn much by studying evil people like Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and others. Take for example the very first quote...Hitler promised Germans the world, but only brought them death and defeat. He was democratically elected by telling the people exactly what they wanted to hear. He won with 98.8% of the vote.....being popular, and an eloquent speaker, he won easily. The world knows what happened next........
I believe it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
--H.L. Mencken
"It is not for any reward or benefit that I have taken office, but only for your sake. It has... been the greatest decision of my whole life." Adolf Hitler, March 29th, 1936
“Give me your children and I will have the next generation.” - Adolf Hitler
"I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American." - Daniel Webster
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child." - Cicero.
"To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington
FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT..........."Fortune favors the strong."
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas (US Socialist Presidential Candidate)
"If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won’t have to shoot."
– General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain
"A primary object...should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing ...than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?" - George Washington
In questions of power, let us hear no more of trust in men, but rather bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution." – Thomas Jefferson
"I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire." ~ Thomas Paine
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” - Thomas Jefferson
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated, but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever." -
Thomas Jefferson
"The issue today is the same as it has always been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." — Thomas Jefferson
"When the people have fear of government, there is tyranny; when the government have fear of the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!" - 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
"The constitution is not an instrument for the government to retrain the people, it is an insturment for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry
"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. " - George Washington
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can” - Samuel Adams
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." - Thomas Jefferson
"All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." - Patrick Henry
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. - 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
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security." - Thomas Jefferson
"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." - Douglas MacArthur
"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
"The true Soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because He loves what is behind him." -G. K. Chesterton
"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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -Ronald Reagan
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - George S. Patton
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
"No b*****d ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b*****d die for his country." - George S. Patton
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." - Napoleon
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." - Ronald Reagan
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — Thomas Jefferson
"I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living." - Ronald Reagan
" He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Ben Franklin
"There is a difference in knowing the path and walking the path." Morpheous
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." - Ayn Rand
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” - Helen Keller
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry
"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
“If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.” - Aristotle
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” ---Aristotle (384-322 BC)
"Children are not vessels to be filled up, rather fires to be lit!" - Plutarch
Many more to come.............I welcome any suggestions!
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