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Darksaga · Post by **Darksaga** » January 27th, 2007, 6:29 pm

Favorite quotes from history or reading....

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
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

"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 success of liberty."
-John F. Kennedy (JFK)

Rico · Post by **Rico** » January 29th, 2007, 8:18 am

"I have brought you to the ring, dance if you can.."

William Wallace to his troops as they faced off against King Edward
-Battle of Falkird July 22, 1298

Rico · Post by **Rico** » January 29th, 2007, 8:20 am

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a pollyglot [sic] boarding house; and we have room for but one, soul [sic] loyalty, and that loyalty is to the American people."

-Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Hurd, January 3, 1919

Rico · Post by **Rico** » January 29th, 2007, 8:21 am

"History is a lie agreed upon"

-Napoleon

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » January 29th, 2007, 10:27 am

"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch."
-William III (William of Orange)

"Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell."
-W.F. Halsey

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams

"Of every one hundred men,
Ten should not even be here.
Eighty are nothing but targets.
Nine are real fighters,
We are lucky to have them...they the battle make.
Ah, but the one;
One of them is a Warrior...
And he will bring the others back."
-HERICLETUS, 500 B.C.

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » January 29th, 2007, 10:54 am

Here's a personal favorite of mine:

Darksaga · Post by **Darksaga** » January 29th, 2007, 10:20 pm

Wow... 18 months... life sure can be a journey. Good thing we can learn things along the way.

Baseplate · Post by **Baseplate** » January 29th, 2007, 10:29 pm

If it don't fit use some spit

Jenna Jamison

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » January 29th, 2007, 11:44 pm

Baseplate wrote:If it don't fit use some spit

Jenna Jamison

How'd you like to be the inspiration for this little pearl of wisdom?

Rugger · Post by **Rugger** » January 31st, 2007, 8:37 pm

Teddy Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

42L5V · Post by **42L5V** » January 31st, 2007, 8:59 pm

I used to have a long list of good quotes, but when the Army said, "No more quotes on the sig lines of gov't email" I got pissed and deleted it.

Too many people using their sig line on gov't email as a personal soapbox or "favorite scripture" pulpit.

BruteForce · Post by **BruteForce** » February 1st, 2007, 6:27 pm

j.rico wrote:"We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a pollyglot [sic] boarding house; and we have room for but one, soul [sic] loyalty, and that loyalty is to the American people."

-Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Hurd, January 3, 1919

What an awesome quote! OUTFOOKIN'STANDIN'

Thanks, Ranger j.rico!

msg_dman · Post by **msg_dman** » February 1st, 2007, 6:46 pm

No one can resist a Crabby Patty!....Sponge Bob Square Pants - August 2005

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