I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face theworld boldly and say, this I have done.All this is what it means to be an American." - Thomas Paine

"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

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain - Notebook, 1904

DE OPPRESSO LIBER

"The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed." - Patrick Henry

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson

DE OPPRESSO LIBER

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.Lt. Colonel Hal Moore
We Were Soldiers

"What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves." ~ F.A. Hayek

DE OPPRESSO LIBER

Served in 101st Airborne Div (back when it was actually airborne), 82nd Airborne Div, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Japan, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Vietnam, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Panama, Field Artillery in Germany and Office of Inspector General, Ft. Sill, OK.

Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home. For it has been said so truthfully that 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 freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the clergy, that has given us the freedom of religion. It is the soldier, not the agitator (community activist/organizer??), who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag. No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.~~~Zell Miller



Mark Twain said, "If you don't read a newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do, you are misinformed."

'Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.' — Voltaire

Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"If men have grasped some faint glimmer of respect for individual rights in their private dealings with one another, then that glimmer vanishes when they turn to public issues -- and what leaps into the political arena is a caveman who can't conceive of any reason why the tribe may not bash in the skull of any individual if it so desires." - Ayn Rand

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Leo Tolstoy

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - Winston Churchill

"Today we're spending like we're Paris Hilton, regulating like we're Ralph Nader, nationalizing like we're Hugo Chavez, printing money like we're the Weimar Republic," ~~Zell Miller

"The death of ten to twenty million people is nothing to be afraid of." -Mao Tse-tung

Vladimir Lenin Quotes:

The goal of socialism is communism.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend ... on the pleasure of anyone else." -Mother Teresa


Thomas Jefferson said there are only two kinds of government, 1) you run your own life, or 2) somebody else runs it for you

As the old saying goes: Life doesn't last longer in socialist countries; it just feels like it.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society" - Aristotle.

In the end, more than they wanted freedom they wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all--security, comfort and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free -- Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didnt speak up because I wasnt a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didnt speak up because I wasnt a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didnt speak up because I wasnt a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up. Pastor Martin Niemöller - Nazi Germany.

To be young and not liberal is to have no heart. But to be old and not conservative is to have no brain.

"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 them 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 short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in 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 know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt