4th Of July Week Quotes

Personal Archives | 07-01-02 | PsyOp

[PsyOp]

Just a little something to get everyone in the right frame of mind for Independence Day. This post is dedicated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. One Nation Under God!

[PsyOp]

4th of July Quote Ping!

[PJ-Comix]

He who laughs last was too dumb to figure out the joke first...

A bird in the hand is messier than two in the bush...

A stitch in time won't same you a dime but at least it makes this stupid saying rhyme...

The early bird gets the early worm...

...Benjamin Franklin (as interpreted by PJ-Comix)

[ProudEagle]

BTTT. Good read. Happy 4th.

[ErnBatavia]

One more, 2001: "Let's Roll....."

[TADSLOS]

bookmarking for liberty.

[lds23]

"The results should have been predictable, since a human being has no natural rights of any nature"

Mr. Dubois had paused. Somebody took the bait. "Sir? How about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'?"

"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is always unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it is always vanquished. Of all the so-called 'natural human rights' that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."

"The third 'right'?- the 'pursuit of happiness'? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."

Mr. Dubois then turned to me. "I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty'. But duty is an adult virtue - indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be, a 'juvenile delinquent'. But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents - people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail."

"And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an admirable cultrue. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constitutued, can endure."

- Robert Heinlein , Starship Troopers

[PJ-Comix]

Lettuce Roll...---Petah Jennings.

[El Gato]

You will march with the utmost expedition and secrecy to Concord, where you will seize all the artillery and ammunition you can find... - Orders to LTC Francis Smith from British General Gage.

The best part is, they didn't find any artillery, or ammunition. Some powder and other colonial stores, but the artillery, such as it was, had been hauled away and hidden in newly plowed furrows, then covered over by the action of plowing another furrow beside the first one. The Lobsterbacks marched right past the fields hiding the cannon. Smith, as fat as I am at least, got himself swarmed. Militia, alerted by Paul Revere and others sent on their own "midnight rides", marched toward Concord more quickly than the Brits coudl retreat back to Boston.

[rdf]

Wow!

bttt

CHEERS,

Richard F

[PsyOp]

"Starship Troopers" was a great book. Read it a long time ago and have been meaning to read it again.

[jae471]

I like the organiztion of the government into Legislative, Judicary, & Executive -- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787

That these Powers ... are so distributed among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, into which the general Government is arranged, that it can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an Oligarchy, an Aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppresive form; so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the People. -- George Washington, in a letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 7 February 1788

The supreme power is in the people, and rulers possess only that portion which is expressly given them... -- "Federal Farmer"

[martin_fierro]

GOOD STUFF!

[2Trievers]

Thanks Psy ... Happy Fourth! &;-)

[Ahban]

I LIKE it.

[PsyOp]

Smith, as fat as I am at least, got himself swarmed.

And sniped at from the woods for most of his hasty retreat as I recall.

[swarthyguy]

Excellent, Thanks.

[PsyOp]

Cool gif! Thanks! You always manage to spruce up these threads with an appropriate image.

[PsyOp]

"Lettuce Roll."

Is that anything like a California Roll?

[rwfromkansas]

I know here that you will agree with me that standing up for America also means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. I believe this country hungers for a spiritual revival. I believe it longs to see traditional values reflected in public policy again. To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny. - Ronald Reagan, Address Before a Joint Session of the Alabama State Legislature in Montgomery, March 15, 1982.