Woo hoo!! Our 2nd quarter FReepathon is now underway!! [thread II]

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[trisham]

”If it's about the lives of my men and their safety,
I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.”

~Allen West

From Wikipedia:
Allen West: Military service
Allegiance: United States of America
Service/branch: United States Army
Years of service: 1982–2004, 22 years
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Commands: 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division
Battles/wars: Operation Desert Storm
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Awards: Bronze Star
Meritorious Service Medal
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal

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[trisham]

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~George Washington

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[trisham]

“Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed."

~Sarah Palin

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Hi, deo!

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"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read,
or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulged,
or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. "

~Alexander Hamilton

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[trisham]

" There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism — government.

Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become.

And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it.

When dictators come to power, the first thing they do is take away the people's weapons. It makes it so much easier for the secret police to operate, it makes it so much easier to force the will of the ruler upon the ruled."

~Ronald Reagan

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"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents,
when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,
when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands,
then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state,
and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution."

~Thomas Jefferson

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"When you can't make them see the light,
make them feel the heat."

~Ronald Reagan

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[deoetdoctrinae]

Looks like we are in for an ugly cool rainy day, but at least the rain will help the flowers. (Gotta try to find the good in everything).

[trisham]

We have sunny skies here, but it’s only 38 degrees at the moment. The forecast high is 52 degrees, which would be very nice for this time of year.

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"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."

Alexander Hamilton

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"The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent?

To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience. "

Alexander Hamilton

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"The Court must be living in another world. Day by day, case by case,
it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize."

~Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Wabaunsee County v. Umbehr,
518 U.S. 668 (1996) (dissenting)

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