Posted on 07/05/2017 5:06:13 PM PDT by Eagles Field
Although it can’t be denied that President Trump has upset the status-quo apple cart ... I’m hard-pressed to think of the multitude of good things that happened that didn’t meet the same objections similar. The point is that much of this is what has always been(a different kind of tweetness) in our Free Republic, for good reason. Before the constraints of political correctness changed the landscape to where hyper-outrage drama queens became our king. The subtle rulers of indignation. One Example: “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
All right, I’m coming out. Any man I see out there, I’m gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I’m not only gonna kill him, but I’m gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down.
—Unforgiven
” YOU TEACH WHAT YOU TOLERATE. “
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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Not sure this met objections but I bet it ruffled some feathers. Don’t know if these are true but I think they were insight into Churchill. A historical “bully” sans CNN.
“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Misogynist!!! OMG!! /s
It takes a brave man to not be a hero in the Red Army.
Josef Stalin.
“And now *you* understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault... it won’t matter - I’m gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I’m gonna blow your head off.”
-Big Jake.
“Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick”.
We all know who said it.
“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it”
Some say it was: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him go to Georgia and enforce it”.
Old Hickory.
“Duty is the most sublime word in the English language”.
Robert E. Lee.
“Duty, Honor, Country”.
Douglas MacArthur.
Butch: "Not 'til me and Harvey get the rules straightened out."
Harvey: "Rules? In a knife fight? No rules!"
Butch: [crotch kick] "Well if ain't going to be any rules let get the fight started"
Ahh, you posted my tagline :-)
“The game of golf has made liars out of more people than the IRS”
Will Rodgers
PRICELESS!
” COME AND TAKE IT. “
Said the Texians of the brass cannon.
Raised on a white wedding dress for a flag were the Lone Star, the drawing of the cannon and those words.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
- - Marcus Aurelius
“You strain at gnats and swallow camels!” - Jesus
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. – Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke, letter, April 3, 1777, to the Sheriffs of Bristol
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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