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.
“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"
“The game of golf has made liars out of more people than the IRS”
Will Rodgers
“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
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
I couldn’t decide on just one yesterday, but just ran across this timeless gem:
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson