Posted on 10/25/2015 5:27:59 AM PDT by xzins
“Let us go in amongst them”
Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton as played by Ward Bond in “The Searchers”.
--Unknown
Letter written by William Barret Travis from the Alamo while under siege:
Fellow citizens & compatriots
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man.
The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls.
I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days.
If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country VICTORY OR DEATH.
William Barret Travis,
I’ll show you how an Italian dies! — Fabrizio Quattrocchi,
thanks for including this quote,
-- Winston Churchill
What all these quotes are up against TODAY:
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
— The Metrosexual
lol at the chuck norris image.
The Farragut quote is among my favorites, but is often shortened as it is here, and actually in my mind softened.
Working from memory, drilled into my brain my first summer on that jut of land where the Severn meets the tide:
“Damn the torpedoes. Four Bells Captain Drayton. Go Ahead, Jouette, Full Speed.”
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The adamance of his intent, as encapsulated in the specific orders to his crew, shows his understanding of the situation and his resolve to achieve military victory at risk and by force. (Note: in this context the term torpedoes refers to what today would be considered naval mines.)
General “Mad Anthony” Wayne during the Battle of Detroit in the War of 1812
Mad Anthony Wayne died in 1796.
F—k da police - NWA
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. — Curtis LeMay
This.
That is a horrible quote. It implies that each civilization creates its own "gxd" in its own image to justify its own subjective "values."
There is only One G-d, and He was created by no civilization. It is the duty of every human being to acknowledge and obey that One G-d above every other loyalty.
The henotheistic ancestor worship of that poem is the very heart of pagan "palaeoconservatism."
I have a cousin named after Anthony Wayne.
“You’re the disease, and I’m the cure” Marian Cobretti
So , “I’m going to move the Department of the Interior to Colorado” isn’t going to cut it?
My favorite is a little more simple and direct.
“Lets kill the sunsabitches!” Capt’n “Hammerin Hank” Elrod
When it comes to Islamists..old edicts work better.
“Kill them all! God knows his own!”-Arnaud Amalric
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