quotes from the past

[quote]

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard of his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections… Private and public vices are in reality… connected… Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of [exceptional] character. The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.
Samuel Adams written to James Warren on Nov. 4, 1775.

[quote]

Patrick Henry
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
- Patrick Henry
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined"
- Patrick Henry
"The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the
people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government,
lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

[quote]

Adolph Hitler
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
- Adolph Hitler
"The art of leadership...consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
- Adolf Hitler

"The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." - Adolf Hitler

[dreamer]

I have a dream...MLK

[quote]

Thomas Jefferson quotes: We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

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John Adams
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people... Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice."
-- John Adams

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Samuel Adams
"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." Samuel Adams
"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams

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"Is it not high time for the people of this country explicitly to declare, whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any thing in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in the event: for wherever tyranny is established, Immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the Interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people's liberties practice every art to poison their morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all events, to put a stop to the progress of tyranny."

The colonial leader Samuel Adams was an influential figure in the years leading up to the American Revolution (1775–83). His newspaper articles and organizational activities helped inspire American colonists to rebel against the British government.

[been there done that]

Never take a sleepinf pill with a laxitive.

Anna Nicole Smith

[been there done that]

sleeping pill,

[think]

"The liberties of our country,
the freedom of our civil Constitution,
are worth defending at all hazards;
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors:
they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure
and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation,
enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us
by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them
by the artifices of false and designing men."

Samuel Adams 1722-1803

[think]

Samuel Adams


"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is
preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant,
and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own
weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

[why not]

Go cut me a switch, I'm going to stripe them legs if you donn't behave.
You're gettin too big fer your britches!
Ain't nothin like a good mess of beans and taters.
aw grannies
they ain't never going to put a man on the moon i donn't care what they say!
I'm going to whoop yer arse til it wonn't hold cornshucks.
my grandpas and grandmas and maybe some of yours

[quote]

Samuel Adams quotes:
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

[why not]

I'm gonna fix a pone of cone bread
Add a little more soup to the beans, companies comin
Put on yer Sundey go to meetin clothes
Madder than a wet hen
lets go slop the hogs
why I ain't never seed nothin like it in my life
go get you a drank out of the dipper
you need to use the champer pot so you donn't wet the bed for morning [grandma used to come around to all the little ones in the middle of the night]

Nothing fancy, but all of that stays in the hearts of those of us that remember these times.

[Why not]

so lazy he wouldn't work at a pie factory
go down to the creek and get a bucket of water
so buck tooth they could eat thought a fence
hook that mule up to that swangle tree
I brought you into this world and I can take you out
we donn't need no read and writtin to make a livin
meaner than a striped snape
I donn't chew my baccor twice
have you got a bee in yer bonnet
its hog killin time, we'll render the lard later today.

[WALDO]

I'll kick yer ass till it can't hold corn shucks!
Get the mule outa that stable.he don't need milkin!
Under cooked biscuits,,Doe dads make fat lads so eat it!
Flitter bread and gravy is what yer eaten this mornen!
scat cat get yer tail outa the gravy!
I kin ride any thang with hair on it!

[George Bernard Shaw]

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep we commit no sin. When we commit no sin we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven"

[quote]

Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
Unknown Source

[true]

if you have one foot in the pass and one in the future,and then you are pissing all over today.i wrote that me LEE