[airborne]

Thanks from BSA Troop 431, Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA.

[TADSLOS]

"If you expect a nation to be ignorant and free, you expect what never was and never will be"

Thomas Jefferson

[PatriotGames]

"Mr Gorbachev, tear this wall down." - Ronald Reagan

[markn]

Ronald Reagan - "Recession is what you get when your neighbour looses his job. Depression is when you loose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter looses his."

[Texaggie79]

"This was the wrong day to quick sniffing glue." --- Llyod Bridges (airplane)

[stylin19a]

How about Davey Crockett:

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Davey Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker, I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and, if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

Crockett took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and of course, was lost.

The previous excerpt, reprinted from an 1884 book entitled The Life of Colonel David Crockett, by Edward S. Ellis,

[stlrocket]

Try some of these - I found them on a really cool website.

INTERESTING QUOTES

[petuniasevan]

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.
Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation
the values that are the foundation for our freedoms.
In the family we learn our first lessons of God and man, love and discipline,
rights and responsibilities, human dignity and human frailty. -- Ronald Reagan

[SunnyUsa]

"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
---Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

"In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender. And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time. "
September 14, 2001
President George W Bush's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
The National Cathedral Washington, D.C.

"We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."
President George W. Bush's address to a joint session of Congress on the evening of September 20, 2001

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"
Winston Churchill
Speech about Dunkirk given in House of Commons June 4, 1940.

[Lexington Green]

A good man should not obey the law too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jla]

Quotes

[Caipirabob]

"That was your daughter?"

~ Bill Clinton

"It all depends on what the meaning of is, is..."

~ Bill Clinton

"I did not have sex with that woman"

~ Bill Clinton

EEEEP! You said "Honorable" didn't you? Well, by comparison, now everyone else is honorable.

[bvw]

There is a Jewish (Ladino) proverb : "Honor is more appropriate for those who share it than for those who hoard it." From the FAMILY SHABBAT TABLE TALK of the UAHC.

[ChadGore]

"I drank what?" -- socrates

[ThJ1800]

Here is a site with many good quotes - Quoteland.com

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This should be a great thread, airborne.

Quotes from the Founding Fathers
President Bush's Moral Clarity
American Center for Law and Justice
Quotations from scientists

[anymouse]

"Let's roll." - Todd Beamer

"I'll not let them raise your taxes, over my dead body!" - President George Walker Bush

[CHICAGOFARMER]

"Good order is the foundation of all things." --Edmund Burke {}

"Delay is preferable to error." --Thomas Jefferson {} "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams {}

"A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand." --Seneca (the Younger) {}

"Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." --Herbert Hoover {}

"It's a poor rule that won't work both ways." --Frederick Douglass XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." --Felix Frankfurter

[arly]

bang bang bang..... "I want to make this perfectly clear...I did not have sex with that woman....."..... It depends on what you mean by alone!

[arly]

oppps sorry I forgot you said from honorable people didn't you ! sorry

[mc5cents]

How happy is he born and taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

Henry Wotton
From "The Character of a Happy Life"